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

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

Find that thing that you are passionate about, that you will do day or night whether someone pays you or not...because if you have that, you will have gold.

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

Small teams driven by their passion with a clear focus can do extraordinary things. Things that only large corporations and governments could do in the past.

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.

Today, philanthropy is a very unsophisticated, old world process where people who make a shitload of money go and give it away and when they're making their money, they're focused on 10x, 100x returns on the dollar.