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

There's always a question when you invest. Are you too early, are you too late, or are you just right? And there was a lot of hype about life sciences, around the sequencing of the human genome and a lot of people concluded that's not really there. But by the way, there was a lot of hype around the digital revolution just about the time of 2000 and the human genome, and it turns out that some of the world's biggest, most powerful companies are the survivors post that crash.

After a lot of debate and a lot of work, what people decided is, it makes a great deal of sense to be open in the system and allow people to begin to build better flu vaccines. I mean, we're still making them in eggs that come out of chickens. And we can see the consequences of that with the current H1N1 lack of vaccines.

Since the 1940s, we've been saying there are no differences, we [humans] are all identical. We're going to know at year end if that is true.

There is a massive ecosystem that has to get built that looks like a biosphere. And the various parts of that biosphere better be there.

Three-quarters of the flags, borders and anthems sitting at the U.N. today were not there 60 some-odd years ago.

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