In Some Ways, If You Make Mistakes

Fortunately For India, It Has Got A Growing Economy. If It Is Doing The Right Things With Taxation And Focusing On The Right Areas For Human Development, It Is Going To Have No Problem, Over A Period Of Time, Taking Care Of Its Own Needs.

People Are Building The Software And So Having The Pieces Be Such That A Single Person Understands All The Tradeoffs And Everything That's Going On In A Piece Is Extremely Valuable. It Avoids Getting Into An Experimental Mode Where You're Just Trying Things Out. That Never Works.

If Somebody Is Working On A New Medicine, Computer Science Helps Us Model Those Things. We Have A Whole Group Here In Seattle Called The Institute For Disease Modelling That Is A Mix Of Computer Science And Math-type People, And The Progress We're Making In Polio Or Plans For Malaria Or Really Driven By Their Deep Insights.

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Often You Just Have To Rely On Your Intuition.