The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.

There's a fundamental difference, if you sort of look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilization, that's out there exploring the stars...compared with one where we are forever confined to Earth until some eventual extinction event.

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

I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

It's a fixer-upper of a planet but we could make it work.

As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot.

My motivation for all my companies has been to be involved in something that I thought would have a significant impact on the world.