The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at Davos.

How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes.

We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.

Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.

Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for.

You have to be willing to see that sometimes the governments of these poor countries don't come through. You have to think about that as a constraint. How do you help them be better? How do you come up with things that actually work, even in those tough situations.

I think we knew that this would be just like raising the kids together, this would be a fun thing to do in partnership. And you know, we're so lucky because we get to hire in very smart people. We get to partner with governments like the Canadian Development Organization - CIDA, USAID - tonnes of scientists doing this work. This is fascinating.