After a lot of debate and a lot of work, what people decided is, it makes a great deal of sense to be open in the system and allow people to begin to build better flu vaccines. I mean, we're still making them in eggs that come out of chickens. And we can see the consequences of that with the current H1N1 lack of vaccines.

It's not completely inconceivable that someday you'll be able to download your own memories.

There is so much extraordinary opportunity if you're curious, if you're interested.

Venture capital is about .02% of the U.S. economy invested, and it accounts for 11% of total U.S. jobs and 21% of U.S. economic output. And the reason why is because these companies can get very big, very quickly.

New York City is a fascinating place because it's very good at using the energy in attracting some of the best and the brightest from everywhere.

It is important that New York, in addition to its fashion, and finance, and tourism, and communications infrastructure, also begin developing venture infrastructure that's for real.

The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.