Building and launching rockets has been a lifelong hobby that my son and I share. We regularly travel to Nevada's Black Rock Desert to launch rockets.

Go to the moon, that's my dream.

Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley.

When burned on a CD, the human genome is smaller than Microsoft Office.

IT is now reaching out to fuels and chemicals, energy and clean tech, rockets, all kinds of bizarre industries that formerly didn’t face much competition.

Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around earth.

The commercial space industry is enormous and ripe for disruption.

Biotech 1.0 is slow, like a lab science, and Version 2.0 is more like computational sciences.

One tech-related concern with religion is that it appears to be a positive feedback loop to the accelerating rich-poor gap, as the disenfranchised opt out of modernity.

The closer you are to technology, the more you trust it.

The greatest mountain is still made of grains of sand.

I hate the hype. When 50 Cent came out, people were saying that he was the best rapper alive: "Oh, he got shot nine times, he's better than Tupac, he's better than Biggie." That was all hype.

Every great story deserves a great ending

If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they'll start to fall down and get depressed.

Freethought is respectable. Freethought is crucial. Freethought needs to be publicized.

If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

Richard Nixon will always go down as a failure because of one stupid, moral - and that goes back to that last chapter, on principles.

It is better to understand a part of truth and apply it to our lives than to understand nothing at all and flounder helplessly in a vain attempt to pierce the mystery of existence.

Ray and I do not draw salaries. Any profits will be re-invested into marketing the music we believe in.