I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it's just such a dramatic success.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

Our success has really been based on partnerships from the beginning.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.

I think there will be PCs at every price point.

If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.

The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of land, or taking advantage of byproducts that aren't used in the food chain today, or by intercropping.

In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.

Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt.

When was the last time you just closed your eyes and just listened?

It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.

Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child’s eye – it is very beautiful.

The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly 'cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.

The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.

People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.

Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people.

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

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.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.

Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.

if I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.

If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.