I like to be counted on.

Web 1.0 was making the Internet for people, Web 2.0 is making the Internet better for companies.

Part of company culture is path-dependent. It’s the lessons you learn along the way.

We're working to lower the cost of spaceflight so that many people can afford to go and so that we humans can better continue exploring the solar system. Accomplishing this mission will take time, and we're working on it methodically.

If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.

I'm skeptical that the novel will be "re­invented." If you start thinking about a medical textbook or something, then, yes, I think that's ripe for reinvention. You can imagine animations of a beating heart. But I think the novel will thrive in its current form. That doesn't mean that there won't be new narrative inventions as well. But I don't think they'll displace the novel.

Read the Declaration of Independence to your children as a tradition every Fourth of July. Make sure they understand why the word "pursuit" precedes the word "happiness."