The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.

Take agriculture, where we haven't done much, or sanitation; saying, "okay, we will be able to make a really huge effort there." It really energized the foundation and half of what we've gotten done in this last decade is because Warren [Buffett] trusted us.

The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.

Who in their right mind would ever need more than 640k of ram!?

A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.

This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.