Improving the health & productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world

Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.

The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible.

Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the Middle East.

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

As for drugs - well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice.

We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging.