Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, on Elon Musk: “I grew up with Elon as a mega-hero. I thought what Elon was doing was absolutely incredible for the world. I have different feelings about him now, but I’m still glad he exists, not just because I think his companies are awesome but because at a time when most of the world was not thinking very ambitiously, he pushed a lot of people, me included, to think much more ambitiously. “

John Driscoll, executive VP and president of U.S. Healthcare, on the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of U.S. Health and Human Services: “Many of us in industry are really concerned that he represents a clear and present danger to one of the greatest industries of the world. Over 4 million years of human evolution, we extended lifespan by about 11 years. In the last 120 we’ve more than doubled global lifespan to 73 years, based on vaccines, public health and biopharmaceuticals. Many of