If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.

Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.

Certain food-based biofuels like biodiesel have always been a bad idea. Others like corn ethanol have served a useful purpose and essentially are obsoleting themselves.

Every big problem is a big opportunity.

Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?

Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.

Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.