The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.

There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.

The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play.

We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.

The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.

If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success.

When it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent.