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 not completely inconceivable that someday you'll be able to download your own memories.

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

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.

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.

It is important that New York, in addition to its fashion, and finance, and tourism, and communications infrastructure, also begin developing venture infrastructure that's for real.

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