I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

There's a basic philosophy here that by empowering...workers you'll make their jobs far more interesting, and they'll be able to work at a higher level than they would have without all that information just a few clicks away.

The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.

Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.

If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles.

Anyway, the US, as in most issues, is the best, has the best capability to lead, and really needs to lead. It doesn't [mean] that other countries won't pick different tacks and emphasize different things. In aggregate, they're almost half of the energy R&D. Europe, China, Japan - it's very important that they come along and contribute to these things.

In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.