Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

I'm extremely confident that solar will be at least a plurality of power, and most likely a majority... in less than 20 years.

Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of what you're doing is as valuable as gold

Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.

Find a place to think and a person to love and be happy.

Maxim 5: Close air support and friendly fire should be easier to tell apart.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

The universe is an intelligence test.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones

History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.

A man too careful of danger liveth in continual torment, But a cheerful expecter of the best hath a fountain of joy within him.

Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.

Lately I’ve been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.

Fish play in the water birds play in the sky ordinary beings play on the earth sublime beings play in display.