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• ‟ Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.

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• ‟ I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods like chili, or bouillabaisse. Various parts of the world will have a cult food that people get enormously attached to - there's tremendous traditions; there's secrecy.

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• ‟ Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.

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• ‟ A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.

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• ‟ We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.

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• ‟ Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.

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• ‟ If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could actually turbocharge the rate at which the world invents things.

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