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I Was Announcing To The Public, In 2006, That I'd Be Leaving Microsoft In A Couple Of Years And Focusing Full-time On The Foundation. That Was The Time At Which We Went Back To New York And Warren [buffett] Announced These Gifts To A Number Of Foundations, With A Very High Percentage Of It Going To Us And Basically Doubling Our Capacity.

The Scientific Understanding Of Some Of These [childhood] Diseases Is Advancing Quite Rapidly. There's Some Things Like Premature Birth Or Nutrition, First Day Deaths That We Need A Lot More Insights So That We Can Build The Tools To Solve Those Problems.

I Could Name About A Dozen Paths, And You'd Like To Have A Whole Bunch Of Research On All Those Paths, And Then, Eventually, At Least Four To Five Companies With Really Significant Financing Try And Get To Big Scale, Going Down And Really Trying To Prove It Out.

In Software You Can't Really Add People And Expect To Get More Done, Because Their Ability To Understand The Program And What's Going On It Would Require So Much Investment And All Their Work Would Require So Much Review That You'd Be More Likely To Slow Things Down.

Aids Itself Is Subject To Incredible Stigma.