Don't be afraid of new arenas.

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

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.