There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking.

We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.

You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things.

Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under its own name...without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

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.