I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.

I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.

Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding.

Education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again.

If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.

In a free society, you get what you celebrate.

I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate