Your cellphone has 10 sensors, and your car has 400. But your body has none - that's going to change.

The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.

It doesn't matter what your probability of failure is. If there's a 90% chance of failure, there's a 10% chance of changing the world.

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.

We don't need a fuel that's cleaner, we need a fuel that happens to be cleaner, but is half the price of oil.

Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.

Setting an aggressive enough carbon-reduction goal will result in an appropriate price for carbon and will help many a renewable technology. Consumer education will help. Most importantly, though, will be the continually declining cost trajectory of the real breakthrough in clean-technology costs driven by research and innovation. In the end, private capital is the real barometer of change.