The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office a short term, and many of these things take a long time.

Kenya’s M-Pesa proves that when people are empowered, they will use digital tech to innovate on their own behalf.

Software is inherently complicated. If you say to somebody I want an airline reservation system, to really say what you want in terms of overbooking and fares, and different airlines communicating with each or schedule changes, it's immensely complex. And so you can't write a program that's any simpler than that full specification.

In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively.

In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.

Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.