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

With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.

Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was.

You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.

If you get health, then you have opportunity for literacy. Health first, then literacy. Once you have literacy, then you have a chance to bring in the new tools of communication. Let people reach out and have access to the latest advances.

India just went 3 years with no cases [of polio]. Pakistan is our toughest location right now because some parts of the Taliban have not allowed vaccinators to come in and have even attacked vaccinators. We are hopeful this will get resolved since no one wants their kid to be paralyzed. I spend a lot of time making sure the polio campaign is doing the best it can. We have great computer models that help guide our activities.

We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging.