Any crusade requires optimism and the ambition to aim high

I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work that went into it, not just my work but everybody else's and the research and so forth, there's a sense of really have done something worthwhile.

In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.

I think it's going to be great if people can buy a ticket to fly up and see black sky and the stars. I'd like to do it myself-but probably after it has flown a serious number of times first!

Any crusade requires optimism and the ambition to aim high

I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.

Technology is notorious for engrossing people so much that they don't always focus on balance and enjoy life at the same time.