I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

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.

Excuses can be your servant, but you must never become their slave.

They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.

It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads but no brains.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Bonsai won the Chilean Critics Award for best novel of the year in 2006and it's easy to understand why.

To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible

I've called science fiction 'reality ahead of schedule'

You can only give your heart away once, after that, everything else will chase your first love

If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.

never adopt a strategy that you would not want your opponents to use against you