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In 1980 we declared the globe free of smallpox. It was the largest campaign in United Nations history until the Iraq war. A hundred and fifty thousand people from all over the world, doctors of every race, religion, culture and nation, who fought side by side, brothers and sisters, with each other, not against each other, in a common cause to make the world better.
Google's a strange place. When I met Eric Schmidt, he said, "If you are kind to everybody, then you will make good decisions because people will give you good information, and if you are truthful to everybody, they will be truthful to you." That's what's different about Google. They screw up and make mistakes, but they genuinely mean the good stuff about "don't be evil."
A 501(c)3 can't lobby. A 501(c)3 can't invest in a company or build an industry. It may be that the only way to deal with climate change is to create an industry or build companies.
If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.
The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.
Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
I make a hundred mistakes a day. I am, and have been, and will continue to be, wrong about almost everything.
The defining character of Steve Jobs isn't his genius, it isn't his talent, it isn't his success. It's his love. That's why crowds came to see him. You could feel that. It sounds ridiculous to talk about love when you are making a gadget. But Steve loved his work, he loved the products he produced, and it was palpable. He communicated that love through bits of steel and plastic.
Change starts with ordinary people doing extraordinary things. The path to the extraordinary is open to anybody at any time.
The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.
I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.
