Right now we really are in an extended brainstorm session. There are no bad ideas.

This is the biggest industry on the planet, so there are a lot of entrenched interests that are keeping the market as it is today.

These are all different approaches, but the market really has to validate them. ... If it's hydrogen, great. How many sales are you going to get?

The X Prize is about changing paradigms. The current paradigm is that it's perfectly acceptable to drive a car that only gets 20 or 30 miles per gallon. This prize is about leveraging cash and opportunity to effect positive change in the environment, economy and geopolitics.

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

Some of the ideas here might not strike you as particularly Italian. And you'd be right. Remember, we are ... Italian-Americans. We live here, just like many of you, and we can't help but be swayed and inspired by homegrown practices.