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.

When people really understand it's do or die [and] if we work hard and pull through, it's going to be a great outcome; people will give it everything they've got.

I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun, you don't have to do anything, it just works. It shows up every day.

There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.

You could power the entire United States with about 150 to 200 square kilometers of solar panels, the entire United States. Take a corner of Utah... there's not much going on there, I've been there. There's not even radio stations.

It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don't think it's possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.