Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

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.

Julesa: "Are you a fool? Father will have you hung if he realises you've escaped."Never: "Everyone dies from something.

Emotions are some merciless attention seekers you know.You ignore them they destroy you.

Death says a million words that the heart can't pen.

You were abducted by space aliens. Of course you want egg rolls.

Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

When logics die, The secret of the soil grows through the eye, And blood jumps in the sun; Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.

Give government the weapons to fight your enemy and it will use them against you.

We don't know where our food comes from. We don't know a lot of things about what is happening financially. This creates the "power over" kind of feeling.

The only pleasure of endurance is its past tense.