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.

Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of what you're doing is as valuable as gold

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.