I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

I wanted to build something that was my own, something I could point to and say, I made that. It was the only way I saw to make life meaningful.

创新是石油工业的支柱；没有创新，我们就会停滞不前。