Life's not fair, get over it!

On the supply side, for innovation, you'd say, go look at those R&D budgets, and they haven't moved in the last 20 years. In the case of the US - which is the majority of R&D funding across every category you can name: health, energy, whatever - it's been about $5 billion a year from the Department of Energy.

Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.

I believe that every life is valuable. That we can make things better. That innovation is the key to a bright future. That we're just getting started.

The trick generally is to break programs into pieces and have those pieces be individually testable and so then when you move on to the other pieces you treat it as a black box knowing that it either works or doesn't work.

I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.

The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area.