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

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

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

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

When you brought the digital revolution in, all of a sudden, you could build a country like Singapore and take that country, which had the income per capita of Ghana in 1965, and make it something similar to the United States in one generation.

As countries appear and disappear, then I began to ask, what makes countries successful? And it turns out, after a long slog through geographies and ethnicities and all kinds of variables, it's the ability to adapt and adopt, what Darwin talked about.

If I had a wand and could put statues in different places, one of the statues would go to a man who just died, called Norman Borlaug, who came up with the Green Revolution.