I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

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

A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is. And lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you'll go out of business.

There's 20 companies that I have investments in - some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure.

We work with whoever is elected. Some will bring a more generous, open view of the world than others.

There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.

The most straightforward path would be if we could bring the cost of solar electric and wind down by another factor of say, three, and then have some miraculous storage solution, so that not only over the 24-hour day but over long periods of time where the wind doesn't blow, you have reliable energy. That's a path. But energy storage is hard. That's not a guaranteed path.