A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.

It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.

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.

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.

Part of the magic of economic growth is how you educate people, and the leading economies have to stay in front of that. From an economic point of view, it affects competitiveness and creates jobs. Or from a social justice point of view, you can take someone in the bottom tier of income and let him compete to be a doctor or lawyer. The education system is the only reason the dream of equal opportunity has a chance of being delivered - and we're not running a good education system.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.