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.

Three-quarters of the flags, borders and anthems sitting at the U.N. today were not there 60 some-odd years ago.

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

Until African-Americans and Hispanics can get serious, not just about area studies, which are important, but also about science and technology, they're not going to generate that wealth and that job within those communities. And that has absolutely devastating consequences for the places where people live, for the jobs and for the wealth.

During a period of time when Italy is talking about splitting northern and southern Italy, France is talking about splitting with Corsica and Normandy, England is talking about splitting with Wales and Scotland and England. And it goes on and on and on.

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

Try to live without something digital - without digital code for about two hours, very hard to do if you're awake.