If the reason you’re taking on a mission is for the money you’ll make, I believe you’ll fail.

The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning.

Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs.

There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity.

Act now. Act with speed.

If the reason you’re taking on a mission is for the money you’ll make, I believe you’ll fail.

It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing.