Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.

Now you have to be a collaborator and you have to bring on governments and convince people.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

I set a rule that people weren't allowed to send good news unless they sent around an equal amount of bad news. We had to get a balanced picture. In fact, I kind of favored just hearing about the accounts we were losing because ... bad news is generally more actionable than good news.

Training the workforce of tomorrow with today's high schools is like trying to teach kids about today's computers on a 50-year-old mainframe.