I’m certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.
I get more spam than anyone I know.
My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.
My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we’ve had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.
Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.
Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil.
You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well.
It’s easier to add things on to a PC than it’s ever been before. It’s one click, and boom, it comes down.
It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‘Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.’
In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.
In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.
The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events – Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima – so it’s more visible.
For Africa to move forward, you’ve really got to get rid of malaria.
If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that’s a good discussion. Maybe that’s the way to help close the deficit.
I’ve always been interested in science – one of my favourite books is James Watson’s ‘Molecular Biology of the Gene.’
Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.
If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.
Certainly there’s a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.
The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‘Does your teacher use class time well?’ and, ‘When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?’