Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.

We work with whoever is elected. Some will bring a more generous, open view of the world than others.

Scientists and companies weren't creating things like new vaccines. Now that we have this fund that's there to buy at the lowest price, but buy for those people these medicines, we see scientists everywhere coming up with those new tools.

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

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

That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously.

The two areas that are changing... are information technology and medical technology. Those are the things that the world will be very different 20 years from now than it is today.