It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.

I do normal kind of contributions, particularly for people who are going over to Africa and help highlighting global health, and that's tended to be pretty bipartisan in nature because of the coalition there exists fortunately around these global health issues. But I don't think my backing, putting a lot of money into political contributions is a way I'm going to try and help improve the world.

Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

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

At every juncture, advanced tools have been the key to a new wave of applications, and each wave of applications has been key to driving computing to the next level.

There are a variety of techniques for breaking software down into pieces and making software development more efficient. Many of these techniques have been sort of... and everybody got excited about but very little benefit was actually derived once the thing was put into practice.