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The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy.

Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.

Don't count on Congress. Laws come into being because people on the ground demand it.

I don't think that it's up to government to dictate what people should wear.

Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia.

One action society needs to take is to use energy much more efficiently. Instead of incandescent light bulbs, you could switch to LEDs that consume a lot less electricity, for example.

Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.