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

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

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

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.

One of the things that really worries me, in part about Mexico, in part about Latin America, and in part about the Hispanic population in the U.S. and Canada. It's the lack of awareness of this whole science world.

Ask your friends how many stars will be in the U.S. flag in 50 years? And the reason why that's a reasonable question is because there has never been a President of the United States who's been buried under the same flag he was born under.

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