Bill Gates Quotes

Sarah Palin knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America.

We ought to open up energy innovation across the board and - and remove the barriers to every form of energy.

In almost every technology area that we're ahead in, we're ahead in because the United States leads the world in computers.

I have to tell you that the innovation and the technology and the entrepreneurship of the world still lies in the United States of America.

The idea of the World Bank loaning money to a nation that has a space program and is building nuclear submarines is just ridiculous.

For the first time in history we have got more energy out of something than we put in … [but] …. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine.

By developing atomic energy for peaceful purposes, you reach the nuclear option. There are no two atomic energies.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

We are much better at creating complex technologies than we are at controlling them.

Innovation is the answer to most problems including energy.

How we move forward with a level of R&D support that will be meaningful allows us to really build on and enhance our energy opportunities in this country.

We need to develop clean, affordable, and reliable energy sources, and frankly, we need to license that technology to the rest of the world.

The price to generate a megawatt or a gigawatt of energy is coming down year after year. We're learning how to print it, make it more efficient.

There has been great excitement at the prospect that this atomic bomb or atomic energy is likely to produce great industrial energy very quickly, I do not believe it at all.

The US spends more on energy R&D than all other countries put together, and I personally consider it quite inadequate. In fact, I would have said we should more than double it, if I thought the absorptive capacity could scale up and if it was actually possible to get to that level.

Paradigm shifts aren't always obvious when you're in the middle of one. Danny Kennedy makes a compelling case for why solar power is the crucial energy technology of the 21st century.

Technology is going to continue to evolve, and we should be at the forefront of it. We should continue to innovate. We should be leaders in clean technology and green energy.

Finally, we will have at our disposal additional revenues from unleashing American energy. The Institute for Energy Research cites a short run figure of as much as $36 billion annually from increased energy production, tremendous amounts of money.

The history of man is dominated by, and reflects, the amount of available energy

Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But our present sources stand in the ratio of a million to one, compared with any previous sources. The release of atomic energy will change the whole structure of society.

It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic energy.

I want to control our own energy by developing oil and natural gas but also the energy sources of the future.

During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If we project what the world will be like 10 years from now without continuing innovation in health, energy or food, the picture is dark.

For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy.

We paired this announcement of the R&D [commitment] with the so-called Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which is 27 [major investors] saying, "Hey, we'll put significant money into [energy innovations] when they're ready to spin out probably into startup companies."