We get 'em in when they're 3 days old. We put their pens around growing feed crops, so they can feed in a manner that will allow them to adapt to the wild.

But there is something about their eyes, and the way they smile at you, that tells you they're not just regular kids.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but lack of curiosity would have killed thousands.

Every so often, the memory atoms bond with the imagination atoms and something interesting -- a fictive precipitate -- will settle out of the solution.

We also go throughout the area and plant small stands of milo that they can feed on as they scatter. There's a lot of work involved in doing that. It's 200 plots (each about a half-acre to an acre) spread all over this place.

The tech market was a speculators' market back then. It was a difficult environment to invest in. Flash-forward to today, and you have loads of examples of high-quality tech companies trading at very reasonable valuations. ... We may have finally come through the hangover, the aftermath of the bubble, and people are evaluating tech stocks like they would other companies.

Because they're so different, they're totally a reflection of society and where we are, but in performance they also connect us to each other and the audience. We're all different, we're all connected -- how do we unify? How do we find a social awareness that's larger than us?