If you were born poor, it's not your fault. But if you die poor it is.

Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk].

Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal technology for that approach, and in the meantime, make the smartest application of the technology that you already have - whether it's something sophisticated, like a drug, or something simpler, like a bednet.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.

Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows.

I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.

Our work in global health is about things like cutting childhood deaths, and every year we continue to make progress there.