british isles, a caltech music. i learned all the paul simon songs.s i got older -- >> he is a hell of a guitarist. people do not realize. he is not flashy, but if you try to learn his tunes, they are really hard. >> he is a brilliant guitar player. i eventually got interested in jazz, world music, everything. maybe that is one of the reasons. i enjoyed so many kinds of music, i did not have a preference. i did not want to be anything in particular. i just wanted to play guitar and get that sound that i was hearing in my head. >> is there a particular song of yours that you can trace back to and influence, sound that you were trying to get that you heard somebody else use and you wanted to use it? >> i will play you a few bars from a piece that i wrote in the 1970's, very much influenced by the british isles style. this one is called "inverness." ♪ >> i am cutting it short, but, to me, that is the quintessential british isles style. >> although, in your hand, it is more harmonically complex. >> it could be. >> one of the things i was trying to do -- i

he will be teaching at caltech. a renowned physicist and author of several books, including the trucker walk, how randomness rules our lives. the new york times bestsellers list. also writing collaborator. the moderator tonight is timothy shriver, very lucky to have him tonight, the chairman and ceo of the special olympics. social leaders, educators the muslim producer, to bernard, and lives one street over for me. very, very connected. we are going to have questions tonight from the audience. it will be on index cards. around 715 we will have someone pick them up. after tonight's talk we are going to have a short reception downstairs sponsored by the foundation and wheezing kemper that. and they should be an interesting moment because we're going to hear from different guests. these conversations, so, please join me now in welcoming the three gentlemen, dr. deepak chopra, leonard mlodinow. [applause] [applause] >> they tudor much. the bank. >> good evening. thank you. good evening. of would like to add my welcome t

he will be teaching at caltech. he is a renowned physicist, author of several books including the drug and walk:how randomness rules our lives. and interesting subject on the new york times best-seller list. he is a writing collaborator with stephen hawking. the moderator tonight is timothy shriver. we are lucky to have him tonight. he is chairman and ceo of the special olympics and social leader and educator and activist legal film producer, entrepreneur additional one street over from me. we're very connected. we will have questions from the audience. they will be on index cards at 7:15. we will have someone pick them up. after tonight's talk we will have a dessert reception downstairs sponsored by david smith family foundation. we thank him for that. and it should be an interesting moment because we hear interesting things tonight from our guest and carry on this conversation downstairs. please join me in welcoming the three gentlemen, deepak chopra, leonard mlodinow and tim shriver. thank you very much. [applaus

guest: let me also say that one of my favorite characters in the book, a man who was a professor at caltech and walked out one day in 1948 to breathe the air in los angeles because it was so dirty. he gave up what was his favorite subject which is trying to understand why pineapples were sweet to work on the question of where to small come from. but he also said he realized that he was a man who identified the active ingredient in marijuana. >> host: interesting. the other irony was the guy, i forget his name, probably on what my post-it notes, but the guy that wrote one of the first papers on fracking was the same guy that -- those in kind of incongruent to me. like you would think the guy, where going to run out of this stuff -- >> guest: he said figures it shadow continues far beyond him to the present-day. >> host: it was interesting because it begs the question for me as a reader, is one of the people, one of the things in the peak oil discussion is he failed in his projection to incorporate technology, yet he wrote a paper -- fracturing which today has opened up a new world. >> guest:

let me also say that one of my favorite characters in the book who is a man who was a professor of caltechalked out one day in 1948 and couldn't breathe the air in los angeles because it was so dirty, and he gave of his favorite subject which was kind of a stand y pineapple was sweet to work on the question where does small come from but he was also just suddenly realized this runs through the whole book he identified the active ingredient in marijuana. >> host: really? interesting to read the other irony is in america i forget his name it was probably on my post-it notes, but the guy that wrote one of the first papers was the same of the peak oil and those seem incumbent. you would think the guy was like we are going to run out of this stuff. >> guest: he is a figure whose shadow continues far beyond him. >> host: thought was interesting because it begs the question for me as a reader and one of the things that comes up in the discussion is that he failed in his projection to incorporate technology that he wrote a paper which today has opened up a role for natural gas. >> guest: that's ri