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

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

If you depend on a single industry, if you don't continuously upgrade it, if that industry is not producing real wealth, if it's simply shuffling paper from here to here in a very efficient manner sometimes, that's not enough and that's not where you begin to get the rest of your jobs.

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.

During a period of time when Italy is talking about splitting northern and southern Italy, France is talking about splitting with Corsica and Normandy, England is talking about splitting with Wales and Scotland and England. And it goes on and on and on.

One of the lessons that I hope people will take out is the extreme dependence simply on the financial sector is really dangerous.

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.