“We need to think about how this technology can be beneficial, not only to people at the top of the pyramid, but also to people across the pyramid, and especially to those at the bottom of the pyramid.”
“The matter of fact is that everyone wants to claim the glory of being the first integrator of a new technology, but nobody wants to be the failure of the investment in unknown technology.”
“I hope they succeed, because if they do, the technology has a lot of potential to help many of those who haven’t benefited as much from the last couple of decades of technological growth.”
“We needed to transcend just a focus on individual morality and self-reliance and come to a more communal understanding of what kind of community we wanted to be, what kind of country we wanted to be, and what that required.”
“The big political fact of my childhood, and the dominant political fact of my adult life, was of course, the Cold War.”
“Billy Salomon comes back from lunch with the French Ambassador and his wife, and there’s a urinal on his office wall. Now, I thought that was pretty funny!”
“Throughout history, for example during the Cold War, we have seen many examples of the US misperceiving the capabilities or the intent of the Soviet Union.”
“The problem that democracy has on the continent today is that many of our political systems and our political parties have not managed to fully exit the 20th century.”
