Cities are magical things. You know the energy in them. You have to walk the streets in any borough here and you can see between what was in this city in the 1970's and where it is today and how much more energy there is and how much more just sheer.

It's important to begin to even consider whether countries can become something that looks very different because people tend to take their countries for granted.

It's such an extraordinary time to be alive that you just don't want to miss it. I mean, it's a really neat historical period.

If you don't have that science and technology and brains as an input, as you don't have in large parts of Latin America, if you don't focus your education on that, if you don't find your 10,000 best scientists, but you do find your 10,000 best soccer players, the consequences are, you become a World Cup Champion in Soccer, like Brazil, but you don't become Korea, which earned 1/5 of what a Mexican did in 1975 and today earns five times more.

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.

There are few jobs in the world that are more fun than being the head of Urban Development for a great and thriving city.

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