People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.

OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known.

If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree.

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.

In the U.S., we believe the best way to improve lives is to improve public education.

I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that.

The scientific understanding of some of these [childhood] diseases is advancing quite rapidly. There's some things like premature birth or nutrition, first day deaths that we need a lot more insights so that we can build the tools to solve those problems.