Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

We work with whoever is elected. Some will bring a more generous, open view of the world than others.

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.

People in business understand paying money to be more efficient. You can bootstrap markets where the devices are too expensive at first because these are so valuable to some people.

Well depending on the government, you either work through the government, which is ideal, because then you're strengthening their capabilities, or you work through the non-governmental organizations. It's never easy, and you know, it's just about the very basics of health. This is not hospitals. This is just primary health care [in Africa], the most simple things, and even so, getting the supplies out, getting the trained workers there.