I think there are worse things than war. For example, injustice.

The Chinese have a long history of slaughtering each other without bothering their neighbors.

What is the great fear of the United States? That an Eastern power will build a navy to challenge us. How do you keep them from doing that? Keep them at each other's throats so they don't have any money to do this. This is why we fought the First World War, the Second World War, and the Cold War.

So as soon as you want something to happen you begin skewing the data to support it. Our stuff is invaluable to decision-makers precisely because we have no ax to grind.

In a way, we can have a much easier discussion about the future of technology than we can about why a young man kills another man in a war.

If you lose yourself to rage in the complexity of battle, you are going to be lost.

So you go to Brookings, or you go to Heritage or others, they know their position on any subject before they research it. If you go to an investment bank, they know what parts of the world they are going to cover and what parts of the world they are not going to cover depending on client interest. We cover the world without being skewed by that. And that makes it more valuable.