I'm not a political person. I'm a techie nerd, and I enjoy the techie part. I mean, all my life, I've loved great 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.

Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who cared more for his vision than being tactical and financial.

The world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they're the uneconomic thing.

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.

Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.

There are parts of the country in America, in the Midwest, where wind is a big resource, and we should absolutely use it. But to try and apply it nationally doesn't make sense. There are technologies that will work that are appropriate to certain regions.