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.

Until African-Americans and Hispanics can get serious, not just about area studies, which are important, but also about science and technology, they're not going to generate that wealth and that job within those communities. And that has absolutely devastating consequences for the places where people live, for the jobs and for the wealth.

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.

We have to get serious about living within our means.

The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.

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.

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