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

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

And we need things in life that are exciting and inspiring. It can't just be about solving some awful problem. There have to be reasons to get up in the morning.

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

I’m nauseatingly pro-American. I would have come here from any country. The U.S. is where great things are possible.

Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.

When you struggle with a problem, that's when you understand it.