if everyone on Earth wants to live like a North American, then we're going to need five planets' worth of resources to do - Peter Diamandis

The ratio of something to nothing is infinite.

The best predictor of a person's future success is past accomplishments. It doesn't matter how small their actions have been-just that they have taken action & done something.

The lineage of agriculture is a lineage of humans rearranging plant DNA. For a very long time, crossbreeding was the preferred method, but then came Mendel and his peas. As we began to understand how genetics worked, scientists tried all kinds of wild techniques to induce mutations. We dipped seeds in carcinogens and bombarded them with radiation, occasionally inside of nuclear reactors. There are over 2,250 of these mutants around; most of them are certified

From an economic perspective, cities are good for business. In 2016, the Brookings Institute examined the 123 largest metro economies in the world. While housing only 13 percent of the planet’s population, they produced almost one-third of its economic output.