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

It is important that New York, in addition to its fashion, and finance, and tourism, and communications infrastructure, also begin developing venture infrastructure that's for real.

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.

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.

There are few jobs in the world that are more fun than being the head of Urban Development for a great and thriving city.

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.

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