"For all these infectious diseases, the goal..." - Quote by Bill Gates

“This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.”

“You don't go to other books and take little pieces because although say a romantic scene may have been many times before all the details of who it is, where it is, are so intertwined in that text that it's easier to write it from scratch.”

“In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.”

“Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal technology for that approach, and in the meantime, make the smartest application of the technology that you already have - whether it's something sophisticated, like a drug, or something simpler, like a bednet.”

“Thinking about impact on children meant adding to the agenda, both the R&D agenda and the delivery agenda, but it's amazing news, even in the scale of other tragedies.”

“Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.”

“It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community needs for its continuous improvement andrequirements - indeed, to avoid sterility and petrification”

“It took thirty-eight years before 50 million people gained access to radios. It took television thirteen years to earn an audience that size. It took Instagram a year and a half.”

“Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them.”