problem solving Quotes

There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way.

The trick generally is to break programs into pieces and have those pieces be individually testable and so then when you move on to the other pieces you treat it as a black box knowing that it either works or... ...

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

The media covers what’s new – and millions of people dying is nothing new. So it stays in the background, where it’s easier to ignore. But even when we do see it or read about it, it’s difficult to keep... ...

Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.

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... ...

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.

You have to be willing to see that sometimes the governments of these poor countries don't come through. You have to think about that as a constraint. How do you help them be better? How do you come up with... ...

Billionaires should never be responsible for solving problems, because they're not the government.