The primary means of energy generation is going to solar. It will at least be a plurality, and probably be a slight majority in the long term.

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.

How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can't see the image of God?

Human needs rules and penalties.Lessons require heroes and villains.Ignore them, then welcome to the jungle.

All things come alike to all; there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not.

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.

Most of the stories I have go downhill quickly. In all honesty most of the good stories I have, no one else would think is funny.

I'm truly obsessed by clothes. I just buy clothes all the time.

The burden of proof is now on the Palestinians... They must fight terrorism and dismantle its infrastructures in order to make possible progress on the roadmap.

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.