I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with but you can't go back to them and be one of them again no matter how hard you try.

I wanted to be a pilot. I loved flying and I loved all the technology and the equipment and the sense of adventure that came with it. I think that feeling still bleeds over into everything I do today.

I am in the process of trying to decide whether I can make a substantive and productive contribution to the policy-making process. I was always there because I wanted to work on the pressing issues of the day - I'm interested in energy I'm interested in the climate bill and technology policy.

The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs.

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.

In the earliest days this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.

I always wanted to work with Michael Jackson. His music will live forever and with technology nowadays... maybe I could.

I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.