Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Billionaires should never be responsible for solving problems, because they're not the government.

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.

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.

As we have taken diarrhea and pneumonia down, even malaria down quite a bit, the portion of the days that are very early in that 5 years - the first month, the first day - it's about half now. Yet that's the part we understand the least.

Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence.