The pace of progress in biology creates a foundation that naturally gets picked up by the biotech and pharmaceutical industry to solve rich-world diseases. This is attractive science. It's science that people want to work on.

The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.

You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

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.

Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was.

Our work in global health is about things like cutting childhood deaths, and every year we continue to make progress there.

When you have a fortune that is almost hard to imagine, the best thing is not to pass that on to one's children. That distorts their life situation.