I am super lucky. I've been in the area where things have been changing and been part of the digital revolution, the magic of software, the internet, the computer, and now the cellphone... so it's been a great privilege.

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.

Every three years, we have to go to the governments and say, okay, you know you're saving millions of lives and even though your budgets are tight, helping Africa avoid this disaster really is a priority.

The need to communicate effectively with your customers will come up again and again.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.