It's actually very hard to find an area of the economy that doesn't fundamentally change in the measure that we are able to read and write life code.

If you had a front row seat at the Renaissance, you would have seen Machiavelli come by plotting, and you would have seen murders in the streets, you would have seen violence, you have seen people burning books and it would have looked like the world was a horrible place, but that's where all these incredible stuff we're still living with comes out of.

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

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

People thought this was a computer IT gig, and that will flow through those nerdy departments and it won't come into fashion photography, it won't come into television, it won't come into my daily communications, it won't come into my telephone, my microphone, my light control, my microwave radio, my - I mean, just name it.

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 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.