Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.

Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

Reward worthy failure - Experimentation.

A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.

It's energy intensification, where we essentially have, through our light bulbs and cars, the manpower of [hundreds of] people working on our behalf, helping our food being created, helping our materials like steel and plastic and wood and paper be created. Our lifestyles are incredibly energy intense.

The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true - many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.