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.
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.
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.