Talent is extremely important. It's like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there’s a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ.

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.

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing of just using other people's money. I don't think that's right. I'm not going to ask other people to invest in something if I'm not prepared to do so myself.

We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun, you don't have to do anything, it just works. It shows up every day.

I'm extremely confident that solar will be at least a plurality of power, and most likely a majority... in less than 20 years.

I'm increasingly inclined to think there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level just to make sure that we don't do something very foolish.

Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.