Microsoft has long hired based on IQ and "intellectual bandwidth."

The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged.

Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk]. Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm, it's destructive-type situations like you saw in New Orleans with Katrina. You're increasing the frequency of that stuff in low-lying areas fairly dramatically.

I like to read general biology - things about the immune system and advances in that area - because it lays the foundation for my part of the dialogue at the foundation about what things we ought to pursue.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?

Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.

In 1990, one in 10 children died before the age of five. That's now down to one in 20, and vaccines were the single biggest factor in that. Had it stayed at 10 percent, 122 million more children would have died.