DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

I'll get to see many disease eradications. and we're seeing a lot of progress.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles.

If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?

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

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.