The future of advertising is the Internet.

Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created.

Government investment unlocks a huge amount of private sector activity, but the basic research that we put into IT work that led to the Internet and lots of great companies and jobs, the basic work we put into the health care sector, where it's over $30 billion a year in R&D that led the biotech and pharma jobs. And it creates jobs and it creates new technologies that will be productized. But the government has to prime the pump here. The basic ideas, as in those other industries, start with government investment.

It's easier to add things on to a PC than it's ever been before. It's one click, and boom, it comes down.

Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.

Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.

If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.