Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games. Nothing like saving the world.

Talent is extremely important. It's like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there’s a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ.

Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.

America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.

Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.

No I don't ever give up. I would have to be dead or completely incapacitated