The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles.
Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.
I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.
I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.
Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth.
Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work.
The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.
Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.'
Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.
The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.
I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.
The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.
I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
