Imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause - and you wanted to spend that time and money where it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving lives. Where would you spend it?

If I only had two dollars left I would spend one dollar on PR.

And knowledge management is a means, not an end.

If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role to play there, because government doesn't do R&D about new things naturally as much as it probably should, and so philanthropy's there.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

Software is more important than hardware.

No one will need more than 637Kb of memory for a personal computer