So, there's quite a big keep-out zone, and when you factor the keep-out zone into account, the solar panels put on that area would typically generate more power than that nuclear power plant.

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.

When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.

My friends love me terribly, and their grief will be a screaming storm if I die.

But you are still you I'm still meAnd we are still we

Not knowing stuff - like how your story ends before you start writing - is the seed of a lot of writer’s block.

All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure is Christ.

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop.

My life is a party, to be experienced and shared with everyone I know!

There is no tougher job in America than being a cop on the beat in a major city in this country, big and brawling.