My family fears that the Russians will assassinate me.

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.

If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.

What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn't there, we'd be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.

I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.

I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive.