The idea of solving as HUGE and LONG-TERM a problem as inequality - which, for my money, is the biggest single problem we have here at HOME - just never gets SERIOUS concern from both sides.

It's like I had two THINGS pulling at me: you want to be a FIGHTER, and you have problems. So I couldn't be a fighter, and I wasn't solving any problems.

We KNOW that solving homelessness has to be about more than simply introducing a new raft of GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES, task forces and top-down solutions.

Why are the people who are most alarmist about CLIMATE change so opposed to the TECHNOLOGIES that are solving it? One POSSIBILITY is that they truly believe nuclear and natural gas are as dangerous as climate change.

There are WAYS that women absorb SITUATIONS, and I THINK women are DIFFERENT KINDS of listeners. They're different in terms of how they parse out problem solving.

In SAN Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an archetype for what we now CALL retroviruses. At the TIME, the replication of retroviruses was one of the great puzzles of animal virology. Levinson, Levintow and I joined FORCES in the HOPE of solving that puzzle.

Throughout his presidency, my grandfather made it clear that he alone could fix NOTHING; that he alone had no answers. He had the courage to plainly ADMIT America's SHORTCOMINGS, to then lay out bold plans to address those problems and to ask his FELLOW Americans for help in solving them.

I went to the LIBRARY - and this was before the Internet - and I searched for a career that was creative, would not fall into a routine, involved problem solving and MAKING things. It also had to be dynamic. I CAME up with special effects.

Palantir is the new WAVE of companies solving big PROBLEMS for big INDUSTRIES.

My MESSAGE is more about unity, solving problems and trying to bring the American people together around a notion of common PURPOSE in terms of what we've got to do to build a BETTER FUTURE.

I'm an ENTREPRENEUR. I ALWAYS have been. I am CURIOUS, and I ENJOY solving PROBLEMS.

I LOVE CREATING MYSTERIES, but I am TERRIBLE at solving them.