Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.

Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

I am results-oriented.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

I'm not a macroeconomics person.

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.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.

Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

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.

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.

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

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.

While money can’t buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

The truly passionate people do it out of love, caring and truth.

Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.