New York City is a fascinating place because it's very good at using the energy in attracting some of the best and the brightest from everywhere.

As from the 1970's onward, digital code started to drive the global economy, now life code is beginning to be the fundamental driver of the global economy over the next 10, 20, 30 years.

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

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

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.

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 depend on a single industry, if you don't continuously upgrade it, if that industry is not producing real wealth, if it's simply shuffling paper from here to here in a very efficient manner sometimes, that's not enough and that's not where you begin to get the rest of your jobs.