Medicine Quotes

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.

The only role other than paying their taxes, whatever those are, the only role for philanthropy broadly – of which the rich should give disproportionately – the more, the better – and I think there is a positive trend in that direction – there are certain risk-taking things, like trying out a new type of charter school or funding a new kind of medicine.

Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn’t because we didn’t have good politicians; we had some really good politicians. But then we started inventing – electricity, steam engines, microprocessors, understanding genetics and medicine and things like that. Yes, stability and education are important – I’m not taking anything away from that – but innovation is the real driver of progress.