Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

One of the wonderful things about the information highway is that virtual equity is far easier to achieve than real-world equity...We are all created equal in the virtual world and we can use this equality to help address some of the sociological problems that society has yet to solve in the physical world.

The genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make self-interest serve the wider interest. The potential of a big financial return for innovation unleashes a broad set of talented people in pursuit of many different discoveries. This system, driven by self-interest, is responsible for the incredible innovations that have improved so many lives.

Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.

Natural epidemics can be extremely large. Intentionally caused epidemics, bioterrorism, would be the largest of all.