"If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept."

"The way you want to respond is to ask a question: Is this technology directly relevant to our hedgehog concept? If the answer is YES, then we want to become pioneers, not in the technology, but in the application of that technology specifically linked to our hedgehog concept."

"I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all."

"What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history."

"In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution."

"London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained."