“We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.”

Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.

Convert bad news to good news.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information.

Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.

Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.

When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.

Bitcoin is exciting because it shows how cheap it can be. Bitcoin is better than currency… for large transactions, currency can get pretty inconvenient.

The future of money is crypto currency.

I’m serious when I do my work. I’m not serious when I’m home with my kids.

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

It’s useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war.