I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

You could power the entire United States with about 150 to 200 square kilometers of solar panels, the entire United States. Take a corner of Utah... there's not much going on there, I've been there. There's not even radio stations.

I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.

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.

Most people can learn a lot more than they think they can. They sell themselves short without trying.

For me it was never about money, but solving problems for the future of humanity.

My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.