The on-chip optical interconnect work that we are funding today should be available to corporate users in about eight years. It will take a little longer to get it into defense systems.

We are migrating optical data networking deeper and deeper into the hardware itself. Optical components inside systems provide higher data speeds and no cross talk. ... The box gets faster and smaller.

When [technologies] go into the commercial world, that improves the yield, uniformity, and reliability of parts. And the costs go down.

It's a beautiful coin. It is a work of art, and you should be very proud of it. Today, Nevada becomes a historic part of U.S. coinage.

I'm getting there. Today I understood what I have to work on, and I have to just get back to the training court and work about it. But hopefully in a couple matches with top players, I'll get my level and can compete against them in the top level.

This completes a major milestone. Today, we complete almost two years of work in getting regulatory and merger approvals.