Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created.

Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

I have drifted away from thinking about these philanthropic things. And it was only as the wealth got large enough and Melinda and I had talked about the view that wealth wasn't something that would be good to just pass to the children.

In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car.

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

Creative capitalism takes this interest in the fortunes of others and ties it to our interest in our own fortunes in ways that help advance both. This hybrid engine of self-interest and concern for others can serve a much wider circle of people than can be reached by self-interest or caring alone.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.