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.

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

Ask your friends how many stars will be in the U.S. flag in 50 years? And the reason why that's a reasonable question is because there has never been a President of the United States who's been buried under the same flag he was born under.

Cities are magical things. You know the energy in them. You have to walk the streets in any borough here and you can see between what was in this city in the 1970's and where it is today and how much more energy there is and how much more just sheer.

Borlaug would be one figure that I think fundamentally changed India, China, all of Southeast Asia, and gave them the time to be able to build on other things.

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's actually very hard to find an area of the economy that doesn't fundamentally change in the measure that we are able to read and write life code.