The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk].

[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.

Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

I think of myself as a global citizen.