Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially.

Political scientists don't work at banks which is a problem. As political issues become more important for the markets, analysts at banks are asked all sorts of questions they don't have the ability to answer. And if you're getting paid to answer questions as analysts at banks are you never want to be in the position of saying you don't know.

I don't see a coherent global order anywhere on the horizon.

Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially.

The real question is not are there other forms of life in the universe, but are there other intelligent forms of life out there right now. Because the universe is not only really big but it's also really long. It's been around for a long time; it's going to be around for a long time.

I was fifteen in college at Tulane. I lied about my age in college so that I could be normal socially. So that girls would go out with me and stuff like that. I just said I was normal age.

It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.