Stuff goes wrong. Expect it, learn from it, fix it. That's how remarkable happens.

Space is not a two-year objective. It used to be, in the early '60's, we had this eye candy of Mercury and Gemini and Apollo and every year we would do something more and more and it met those needs. But the easy stuff has been done.

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

When faced without a challenge, make one

When cars have the sensory systems around them, GPS intelligence, they're looking at the world not only in visual spectrum, but infrared, ultraviolet and everything else that's going on and they've got reaction times in microseconds. Not a tenth of a second. They're a hundred thousand times faster.

If you give people unlimited time and money, they'll do things the same old way. But if they have to achieve the goal in a brief time, they'll either give up or try something new.

As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.