Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

How we deal with the AIDS epidemic should be one of the greatest ways that the world gets measured. The report card for this era.

So not only are we saving lives now, we're creating the incentive for the breakthroughs that over the next generation will mean we can take AIDS, malaria and TB and bring those numbers dramatically down.

While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.

I think we knew that this would be just like raising the kids together, this would be a fun thing to do in partnership. And you know, we're so lucky because we get to hire in very smart people. We get to partner with governments like the Canadian Development Organization - CIDA, USAID - tonnes of scientists doing this work. This is fascinating.

How you gather, manage, and use information will determine whether you win or lose.