There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.
“It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor.”
“Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.”