Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

The first big effects will be farmers that live on the edge. Today's weather, they barely get by. Their kids, a high percentage are malnourished, and so if you impose more variable weather and more heat, you're getting more floods, more droughts, and during the germination time, the high heat, most crops...do poorly when there's more heat.

If you were born poor, it's not your fault. But if you die poor it is.

I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science.

Sorghum is kind of unusual. It can go to very high heats, but it's not as productive in most environments as maize is.

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.