At my first job as an independent researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, they told me I could work on most anything, but not what I knew something about. That is actually very good advice to a young person starting a career because you bring new ideas to the field.

Starting a new job is always scary, or at least for me it's always scary. It's like the first day of school.

My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'

Energy is one topic on which different countries can work together collaboratively. If we can all produce energy from an element that's available in abundance on our planet, that would be a good thing, but we have to learn how to produce energy in large quantities, cheaply, efficiently and without detriment to the environment.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

Every campaign has competing ideas from within. You get more advice than you can take ...