I Hope You Will Judge Yourselves Not

In The Us In The 1900's 60 % Of People Were Employed On The Farms. Today It's Less Than 1%. If You Told People Back Then That This Would Happen They Wouldn't Have Believed It. If You Told Them We Would Have Therapy, Massages And Spas That Played Important Parts In Our Lives They Would've Have Believed Us.

If You Withdraw The Incredible Focus On Polio, It Will Spread Back, And In Poor Countries You'll Get Something Like 100,000 Cases A Year. So By Being Very Intense And Getting The Cases Down To Zero, What You Do Is You Avoid All The Future Cases.

I'm An Investor In A Number Of Biotech Companies, Partly Because Of My Incredible Enthusiasm For The Great Innovations They Will Bring.

Taking A Look Back, One Big Reqret Is, I Left Harvard With No Real Awareness Of The Awful Inequities In The World. The Appalling Disparities Of Health And Wealth And Opportunity That Condemned Millions Of People To The Lives Of Despair. I Learned A Lot Here At Harvard About New Ideas And Economics, And Politics. I Got Great Exposure To The Advances Being Made In The Sciences. But Humanities Greatest Advances Are Not In Its Discoveries, But In How Those Discoveries Are Applied To Reduce Inequity.

Microsoft Research Has A Thing Called The Sense Cam That, As You Walk Around, It's Taking Photos All The Time. And The Software Will Filter And Find The Ones That Are Interesting Without Having To Think, 'let's Get Out The Camera And Get That Shot.' You Just Have That, And Software Helps You Pick What You Want.