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.
Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Teaching’s hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.
The answer is simple, and harsh. The market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize it. So the children died because their mothers and their fathers had no power in the market and no voice in the system.
Computers and games don’t waste time – people do.
The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less.
I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion of those fortunes.
No more misquoted forms, lost invoices, redundant entries, missing checks, or delays caused by incomplete paperwork.
I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.
Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.
If you believe that every life has equal value, it’s revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: “This can’t be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving.”
Well, it’s taken time to get this going, but he was right. If you give people a chance to associate themselves with a cause they care about, while buying a great product, they will. That was how the RED Campaign was born, here in Davos.
There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
The tool that’s most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.
Learn from your unhappy customers.
Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.
Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put three man-years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product, and distributing it for free?
When we face a choice between adding features and resolving security issues, we need to choose security.
Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company.
Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.