Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day. ... It drives me nuts that most people don't seem to know this news.

A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.

You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future

A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.

The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.

Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. It is concerned with the perception part of thinking. This is where we organise the external world into the pieces we can then 'process'.

America is not just a country, it's an idea.