My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.

Funded by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from the people. Sometimes people forget that that's really what occurs.

We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.

Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.

You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it.