Larry Brilliant
Larry Brilliant
Lawrence "Larry" Brilliantis an American physician, epidemiologist, technologist, author, and the former director of Google's philanthropic arm Google.org. Brilliant, a technology patent holder, has been CEO of two public companies and other venture backed start- ups. From 1973 to 1976, he participated in the successful World Health Organizationsmallpox eradication program. In April 2009, he was chosen to oversee the "Skoll Global Threats Fund" established by eBay co-founder Jeff Skoll...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth5 May 1944
CountryUnited States of America
Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
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.
Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.
The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.