The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

我们不能改变过去，但我们可以改变对过去的看法。

Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.

The best way to predict the future is to create it through bold, responsible action.

If you control someone's interests, you control their expectations, and thus their actions.