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One city can look at other cities relative to their city and learn something. It's a matter of sharing the patterns of what exists in one society based on landscape or cultural values versus other cities.

Knowledge should be a public good, and I want my ideas to have as much exposure as possible.

We live in an information and knowledge-based economy.

Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche.

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London.

There's a wealth of information and knowledge you can gain from sitting down with people who are successful.

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.