Three-quarters of the flags, borders and anthems sitting at the U.N. today were not there 60 some-odd years ago.

Real estate prices are way out of whack with what people earn.

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 I had a wand and could put statues in different places, one of the statues would go to a man who just died, called Norman Borlaug, who came up with the Green Revolution.

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

Not only are we reading life code, we're beginning to copy it through cloning, and we're beginning to write, and in the measure that we do that, boy, you can build a lot of very powerful companies in a short period of time.

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.