I read books and talked to people. I mean that's kind of how one learns anything. There's lots of great books out there & lots of smart people.

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.

He knew...there was no redemption for the damned.

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired.

Take responsibility for making conscious choices.

The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.

Think of me as the praying mantis of the supernatural world. Aren't those the bugs that bite the heads off the males? Link looked skeptical. Yes. Then they eat them

That was the worst part about losing someone-finding a place to store all the thoughts and feelings you'd otherwise share with them.

My salvation has very little to do with anything that I have done... Jesus will go to any lengths to draw us to himself.

I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War and, by God, we did.

You have to make every group you come in contact with better.