My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes.

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

It’s useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war.

My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.

SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail.