It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.
I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development.
If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.
At every juncture, advanced tools have been the key to a new wave of applications, and each wave of applications has been key to driving computing to the next level.
The software is where the magic is. If you’re going to have all this power be simple enough, appealing enough and cool enough, it’s going to be because the software is right.
Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.
Kenya’s M-Pesa proves that when people are empowered, they will use digital tech to innovate on their own behalf.
The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I’d rather go into a grocery store today than a king’s banquet a hundred years ago.
Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we’ve rolled almost everything back to the company.
The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won’t be at Davos.
Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.
The CEO’s role in raising a company’s corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration.
I’m quite worried about the fiscal imbalances that we’ve got and what that might mean in terms of financial crisis ahead.
That way you can be certain to learn something you didn’t know previously.
The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device.
The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the.
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.
Certainly I’ll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I’ve gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.
I’m going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.
Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.