We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.

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.

Power concedes nothing without a demand.

everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure

Peace begins with a touch of unconditional love.

Self-awareness paradoxically requires an awareness of the other.

Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea.

Just about the worst thing a leader can nurture in his heart is self-pity. And just about the worst thing a leader can do in front of his people is murmur and complain.

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.

We put a gender lens on our whole value chain.

Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.

Human beings are such social animals. We're very connected with the feelings of those we're close to, so we can't really be happy when the ones we are close to are unhappy.