"Human-centered design. Meeting people where they are and really taking their needs and feedback into account. When you let people participate in the design process, you find that they often have ingenious ideas about what would really help them. And itâ€™s not a onetime thing; itâ€™s an iterative process."

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Source : "The Human Element: Melinda Gates and Paul Farmer on Designing Global Health". Interview with Caitlin Roper, www.wired.com. November 12, 2013.

Melinda Gates

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“It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.”

Source : Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.217
“The body isnâ€™t the foundation of your health. The body is the physical manifestation of the sum of your life experiences.”
“Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it.”

Source : Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.61, Penguin
“When you make the claim that something on the Internet is going to be good for democracy, you often [hear], 'Are you talking about the thing with the singing cats?'”
“Religions are vague, of course. This means that they are easy to follow -you can interpret their prescriptions as you like. but it also means that it is easy to slip up -there is always some injunction you are violating. But Islam has no religious establishment - no popes, no bishops - that can declare by fiat which is the correct interpretation. As a result, the decision to oppose the state on the grounds that is insufficiently Islamic belongs to anyone who wishes to exercise it.”
“Souls don't have races or sexes or religions. They are beyond artificial divisions.”
“Interviewing people is pretty natural for me.”
“I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty.”

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