No one will need more than 637Kb of memory for a personal computer.
Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority.
The future of advertising is the Internet.
A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is and lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you will go out of business.
There’s a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way.
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping – they called it opportunity.
The Chinese are clearly inculcating the idea that science is exciting and important, and that’s why they, as a whole-they’re graduating four times as many engineers as we are, and that’s just happened over the last 20 years.
Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.
Don’t let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.
I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact.
The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about what a rich system it is.
My dream is that every child has enough food to eat, good medical care, and the chance to go to school and even attend college.
I went public too soon. Stay private as long as you can.
I believe technology will continue to become more affordable and more people will have the chance to use it. This will help more people get medical care and a good education.
My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases.
Innovation is often the hidden thing, because we can’t put numbers to it. And yet it’s the thing that defines the way we live, the things we’d like to have for everyone whether it’s health or education.
Death is something we really understand extremely well.
Vaccination is one of the easiest things on the way to development. It’s much easier than roads and a great education system. It’s very basic. It’s one of the first things you want to get right.
I like to read general biology – things about the immune system and advances in that area – because it lays the foundation for my part of the dialogue at the foundation about what things we ought to pursue.
I remember in 1980 or 1981 looking at a list of people who had made a lot of money in the computer industry and thinking, Wow, that’s amazing. But I never thought I’d be on that list. It’s clear I was wrong. I’m on the list, at least temporarily.