Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

If the reason you’re taking on a mission is for the money you’ll make, I believe you’ll fail.

Change the way we teach; Empower teachers

Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs.

You have to have great design to be competitive in today’s markets.

It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing.

How do you create jobs? Our companies have generated about 350,000 jobs and that's good.