Every generation has underestimated the potential for finding new ideas . . . Possibilities do not add up. They multiply.

In a sense, Britain inadvertently, through its actions in Hong Kong, did more to reduce world poverty than all the aid programs that we've undertaken in the last century.

Once we admit that there is room for newness - that there are vastly more conceivable possibilities than realized outcomes - we must confront the fact that there is no special logic behind the world we inhabit, no particular justification for why things are the way they are. Any number of arbitrarily small perturbations along the way could have made the world as we know it turn out very differently.

Never waste a crisis.

Growth springs from better recipes, not just from more cooking.

Possibilities don't add up, they multiply.

Every generation has underestimated the potential for finding new ideas . . . Possibilities do not add up. They multiply.