People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.

As a child I would just question things.

The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.

I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.

I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere.

There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.