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

Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them.

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.

If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it's worth considering.

The day before something is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.

The thing about frontiers, it allows the individuals who are best, whether they're men or women or minorities or whatever, to step to the top. So in traditional societies, old world societies, in the United Kingdom if you would; if you were born into the right stratus, the right class, you had the ability to succeed.

Humans are the worst control system to put in front of a car.