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

We traditionally in this world didn't have enough calories to feed all of us and had huge famines, not just in Africa, but had them across India, across Southeast Asia, and across China. Because of Borlaug's work at Simit and because of this we have huge excess, until very recently, in agricultural produce and the prices went through the floor.

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

I've always been interested in why countries appear and disappear. And the curious thing is how often it happens.

It's not going to surprise me if our kids end up running on the beach in Florida when they're 100 years old on regrown body parts with a much higher quality of life than we can begin to imagine.

We're beginning to enter an era where it gets really cheap and really fast to begin to do things like make fuels, and make textiles, and make extra teeth for ourselves. And we're beginning to think about how we regrow our bladders.

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