You should command and demand the tenfold leverage on your dollars when you give it away as well.

I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky.

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

The question companies have to ask, or governments have to ask is, where do we allow crazy ideas to bubble up? Because if there is a failure, what happens? Someone gets blame. There's a lawsuit, there's a congressional investigation. And so, those things shut down the creative engine.

If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.

You've got to choose your horse ahead of time. So, if you're interested in water technology, energy technology, you get to choose between the three or four companies that you have insight into. And you have to make a bet on them before they prove anything out.

An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can't be done.