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

It's important to begin to even consider whether countries can become something that looks very different because people tend to take their countries for granted.

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

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.

It's such an extraordinary time to be alive that you just don't want to miss it. I mean, it's a really neat historical period.

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

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