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Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.

Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.

Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.

From Dan Shechtman

I always say that people are like peanut shells on the ocean: the waves will take them everywhere.

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My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island' - which I read 25 times as a boy - I thought that was the best thing a person could do. The engineer in the book knows mechanics and physics, and he creates a whole way of life on the island out of nothing. I wanted to be like that.

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The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.

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Me as president would not be like anybody else as president. Everyone does the job differently.

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Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.

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Young people in Israel are encouraged to design, produce and sell their products from high school. Technical universities also matter. Teach and introduce entrepreneurship courses in technical universities.

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Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

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