Real estate prices are way out of whack with what people earn.

Within the United States, there is a real division between the PhDs given in science and math to the Asian community, to the traditional white community, and then to African-Americans and Hispanics.

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.

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.

When I grew up, I simply didn't have mentors that said, "Science is important. Science helps you build a country. Science makes a country powerful." And that's such a simple thought, but when you think about what's powered Taiwan and Korea and Silicon Valley and Cambridge.

The thing that keeps me most awake is the desire and curiosity to learn more.

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