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

When you go and you tour Europe, or you go and you tour Egypt, or you go and you tour Iraq, or you go and you tour Afghanistan, or India, or whatever. Governments get to a point where they're illegitimate because people just give up on them as far as being leaders who have their country's interests at heart.

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

I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis: ... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the evolution of his species, her species and other species.

The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.

China has, all of a sudden, found a way of putting the best of the best to work to build an economy that is growing at 10% to 12% per year, and now India is following. And those changes and how quickly they've come out of this mess, how little debt they have, is really important.

Anytime you bring a really powerful new technology to market there are multiple implications. You start changing the relative position of countries.