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.

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.

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

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.

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

The thing that's really important to understand is, the last thing an empire traditionally does is drive itself into bankruptcy. You've seen that with the great empires.

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