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.

As from the 1970's onward, digital code started to drive the global economy, now life code is beginning to be the fundamental driver of the global economy over the next 10, 20, 30 years.

Not only are we reading life code, we're beginning to copy it through cloning, and we're beginning to write, and in the measure that we do that, boy, you can build a lot of very powerful companies in a short period of time.

There is a massive ecosystem that has to get built that looks like a biosphere. And the various parts of that biosphere better be there.

There are few jobs in the world that are more fun than being the head of Urban Development for a great and thriving city.

The Americas has been a relatively stable continent. The last truly new border we have is Panama in 1903.

One of the lessons that I hope people will take out is the extreme dependence simply on the financial sector is really dangerous.