The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria.

Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.

It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.

The US really has to get out in front. We are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute.

The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the

You know, development sometimes is viewed as a project in which you give people things and nothing much happens, which is perfectly valid, but if you just focus on that, then you'd also have to say that venture capital is pretty stupid, too. Its hit rate is pathetic. But occasionally, you get successes, you fund a Google or something, and suddenly venture capital is vaunted as the most amazing field of all time. Our hit rate in development is better than theirs, but we should strive to make it better.

If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It starts to balance out.