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

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.

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

If you don't have that science and technology and brains as an input, as you don't have in large parts of Latin America, if you don't focus your education on that, if you don't find your 10,000 best scientists, but you do find your 10,000 best soccer players, the consequences are, you become a World Cup Champion in Soccer, like Brazil, but you don't become Korea, which earned 1/5 of what a Mexican did in 1975 and today earns five times more.

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

The housing crisis may not be the worst thing that's happened to New York City because it was becoming impossible for some of the young doctors, for some of the young artists, for some of the people that make the city so special to be able to live here.