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The 'spirit of Davos' has definitely achieved a thing or two.

My favorite conference so far has been Davos, the World Economic Forum. The people there were really incredible.

But beginners to the World Economics Forum have to understand there is no single Davos experience, and there is no single Davos community either. There are numerous tribes who interact only at a minimal level.

I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their way. It's like a monastery in a way, and that beautiful refuge has been destroyed by dogma about what this stuff is for.

I'm very involved in FIU. I'm class of '96 and my wife is class of '97. I'm a member of the foundation board. We talk about where the university is strategically and the evolution of programs for the near and distant future.

I love this university, and although I might be retiring from the presidency, my work with Ohio State will continue.

War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.

It's nice to work with your own alma mater.

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.