If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

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

Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing of just using other people's money. I don't think that's right. I'm not going to ask other people to invest in something if I'm not prepared to do so myself.

You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it.

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

Even if producing CO2 was good for the environment, given that we're going to run out of hydrocarbons, we need to find some sustainable means of operating.