Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.

I want to make clear that we respect the role of government in our legal andeconomic system.

R&D generally has been a bipartisan thing, because in the IT space, in the medical space, the U.S., the benefits to ourselves and the world and our economy have been very, very clear. I'm hopeful we can make a very strong case there. Energy is actually harder; it takes more time to get a product, but if you do it's a very, very big market and the constraints of doing that in a clean way are more obvious all the time.

The best teacher is very interactive.

You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in 10 years.

Energy is actually harder; it takes more time to get a product, but if you do it's a very, very big market and the constraints of doing that in a clean way are more obvious all the time.

Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for.