If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.

See the clock only when you have No work.... Don't see the clock when you are working.... Clock is a lock for success

While we're all very dependent on technology, it doesn't always work.

People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.

I think given all the different imperatives - getting energy to Africa, security of energy, climate change, that we should be spending half as much as we spend on health, which will get you all the way up to $15 billion - the health people don't like it when things get compared to their number.

Natural epidemics can be extremely large. Intentionally caused epidemics, bioterrorism, would be the largest of all.

Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.