A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

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Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions.

I don't think I would have spent time learning about the immune system if understanding vaccines weren't something I considered very important.

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.

If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role to play there, because government doesn't do R&D about new things naturally as much as it probably should, and so philanthropy's there.