If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry.

You want to do things you’re passionate about but also are useful to other people.

The idea of lying on a beach as my main thing just sounds like the worst. It sounds horrible to me. I would go bonkers. I would have to be on serious drugs. I'd be super-duper bored. I like high intensity.

There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.

I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.

I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least.