The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of land, or taking advantage of byproducts that aren't used in the food chain today, or by intercropping.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

To be a good professional engineer, always start to study late for exams because it teaches you how to manage time and tackle emergencies.

To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.

We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.

The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.

Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence.