optimism Quotes

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer.

I think if you talk to the experts in any field where you have to take on a unknown challenge, where you're going to be working on it for a long time you'd find that to work themselves up to... ...

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.

We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.

The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less.

I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that.

By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that were aid recipients are now self-sufficient. You might think that such striking progress would be widely celebrated, but... ...

I'll get to see many disease eradications. and we're seeing a lot of progress.

Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.

Convert bad news to good news.