A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.

I'm quite worried about the fiscal imbalances that we've got and what that might mean in terms of financial crisis ahead.

We need to look at less obvious paths, things like the wind in the jet stream, which is very high up. The material science of what type of kite string you would need to connect up to that. That's still at the basic research level.

Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online.

There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth.