You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

I reboot [my Windows PC] every night.

Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.

The US in some ways has been the best. Who figured out shale gas? Although that wasn't a good thing [for CO2 levels], it was very innovative. It's led to low-cost energy. Who figured out nuclear power? Largely the United States. Once you get past the steam engine, which is mostly British, then the US has been at the center of most of the energy things that have happened.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.