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

Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.

I think we have a society which is spending more and more of its money on healthcare as a percent of GDP as a percent of a lot of things. I think that's a measure of success.

The word entrepreneur is associated with success and adventure. From my life, the only thing I can tell you that's consistently associated with entrepreneurship is failure, and the only thing consistently associated with invention is frustration. There is a long road between the idea and the reality.

Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private.

As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought

We cant live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, were all doomed.