The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.

If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our innovations and we will surprise the pessimists.

We are seeing pioneers moving out to the Internet, banks that are taking transactions, retail shopping on the Internet, and although it's going to take most of a decade before most adults are turning to the Internet for a high percentage of their act

There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.

Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.

If you rely too much on the people in other countries and other companies, in a sense that's your brain and you are outsourcing your brain.

I think Ebola is a great example of where the world really needs to come together. The three countries where this outbreak took place have had a lot of civil war, very weak health systems. And so, it did take a while for people to understand ....that eventually what we saw was a very unique Ebola epidemic. I think it is quite impressive what's being pulled together, and I think we will be able to get this under control.