If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all – including the poorest.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you're glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.

The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.

If you're smart, you often want a feedback loop so you know if what you've done is... is right.

Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money.

More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.