You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it.

Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.

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

It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon. Didn't work out.

There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.