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

NASA calls stuff nominal instead of phenomenal, like it really is. So I have given up that there is going to be a balance and NASA is going to do certain things and we are finally in a state of existence where small groups of individuals can do extraordinary things, funded by single people.

Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.

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

What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.

Back in 2007, I had the opportunity to meet Professor Stephen Hawking through the X PRIZE Foundation. In my first conversation with him I learned that he was passionate about flying into space someday.

We have these 100 mms delays, you know, our attention is on our PDA, we're always in a rush. We drive around in these 4,000 pound metal wombs, these 4,000 pound containment systems to protect us from these 6,000 pound cars from smacking us.