We paired this announcement of the R&D [commitment] with the so-called Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which is 27 [major investors] saying, "Hey, we'll put significant money into [energy innovations] when they're ready to spin out probably into startup companies."

I am results-oriented.

The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

Even when I wrote Basic myself the day before I burned it into a computer I wasn't making design changes. I didn't have a testing team. I did all the testing myself. And there was no project methodology or schedule that, there was the notion of coming to a close means testing a lot at the end and making very few changes.

If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our innovations and we will surprise the pessimists.