There are lots of new problems to solve today. Technology is perhaps our most powerful tool to get the job done.

Technology is applying science to solving problems. Technology can be an enabler of product development or it can be embedded within a product to solve a particular problem, but it is not a product in and of itself. Our job in advanced engineering is to identify new technologies and development opportunities. It is exciting work.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday

You could also locate a smaller engine elsewhere, say under the sleeper bunk. I have a patent for that, in fact. Moving the engine could reduce the frontal area of the truck and enable aerodynamic and weight-distribution improvements that are not feasible now. Generally speaking, I think we'll see more interest in what hybrid technologies can do; there will be people very open to trying new solutions.

I had to interview a whole bunch like that today. They are all locals from single-child families. Only a few of them left me with good impression.

UMC has only one problem today, and that is how to fill a 12-inch [chip plant].