Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.

True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.

The day before something is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.

Find that thing that you are passionate about, that you will do day or night whether someone pays you or not...because if you have that, you will have gold.

An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can't be done.

The only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

Small teams driven by their passion with a clear focus can do extraordinary things. Things that only large corporations and governments could do in the past.

Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.

The best way to become a billionaire is to help a billion people.

Creating abundance [is] not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility.

The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.

You are a manipulator.I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.

Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.

I have been extremely proactive in putting myself up for characters that may have been meant to specifically be Caucasian. You bring an interesting angle to the character that isn't written.

But I don't want to lose touch with things like eating in Bob's Big Boy.

I remember the special effects people had fun making a little doll that looked like me - which is not so easy - and it had to move along the floor.

That's the thing about mistakes, you don't dwell on them.

Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.

I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year

It is only when the formed learns from the unformed that there is understanding.

It is nobler to love the person next to you than to love mankind in general.