I don't think the Arab Spring had much to do with energy. I think it was just the opposite, in fact. I think the Arab Spring happened because particularly young people knew they were living in a context where they could not realize their full potential, that they are being kept down by their own governments.

Remember, in China when you are one in a million, there are 1,300 other people just like you.

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.

America is interested in change and reform in the Middle East but in a stable way.

Obviously China is clearly taking the lead in some areas, but when it comes to the most advanced innovation, it's still America.

I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt.

If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.