We [corbis] Make It So

[smart] Is An Elusive Concept. There's A Certain Sharpness, An Ability To Absorb New Facts. To Ask An Insightful Question. To Relate To Domains That May Not Seem Connected At First. A Certain Creativity That Allows People To Be Effective.

You Need To Understand Things In Order To Invent Beyond Them.

Steve Jobs' Ability To Focus In On A Few Things That Count, Get People Who Get User Interface Right, And Market Things As Revolutionary Are Amazing Things.

The World Is Very Disparate, In Terms Of The Us Using The Most Energy Per Person, And Then The Other Rich Countries - Europe, Japan, New Zealand - Using About Half Of What We Do, And Then The World Average Being About A Fifth Of What We Use, With China Just Now Surpassing The World Average.

I Have A Particular Relationship With Vinod Khosla Because He's Got A Lot Of Very Interesting Science-based Energy Startups.