Today most poverty-stricken Americans have a television, telephone, electricity, running water, and indoor plumbing. Most Africans do not. If you tra… - Peter Diamandis

Plus, doing anything big and bold is difficult, and at two in the morning for the fifth night in a row, when you need to keep going, you're only going to fuel yourself from deep within. You're not going to push ahead when it's someone else's mission. It needs to be yours.

confirmation bias is a tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions — but it can often limit our ability to take in new data and change old opinions.

Right now we’re enjoying first generation GE crops; soon we’ll have versions that can grow in drought conditions, in saline conditions, crops that are nutritionally fortified, that act as medicines, that increase yields and lower the use for pesticides, herbicides, and fossil fuels. The best designs will do many of these things at once. The Gates Foundation–led effort BioCassava Plus aims to take cassava, one of the world’s largest staple crops, fortify it with protein, vitamins A and E, iron, and zinc; lower its natural cyanide content, make it virus resistant, and storable for two weeks (instead of one day). By 2020, this one genetically modified crop could radically improve the health of the 250 million people for whom it is a daily meal.