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.

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

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

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.

We're beginning to enter an era where it gets really cheap and really fast to begin to do things like make fuels, and make textiles, and make extra teeth for ourselves. And we're beginning to think about how we regrow our bladders.

We traditionally in this world didn't have enough calories to feed all of us and had huge famines, not just in Africa, but had them across India, across Southeast Asia, and across China. Because of Borlaug's work at Simit and because of this we have huge excess, until very recently, in agricultural produce and the prices went through the floor.

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.