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.

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

Large companies and government agencies have a lot to protect and therefore are not willing to take big risks. A large company taking a risk can threaten its stock price. A government agency taking a risk can threaten congressional investigation.

More than ever before in history, individuals can now band together to solve grand challenges. We face enormous problems, but we 'as individuals' have enormous power to solve them.

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

You have to ask yourself the question, do you have the smartest people in the world working for your company? And if you do, you're lucky. But if you don't, put up the incentive. And have someone who is absolutely brilliant who's a 22-year old in India who says what about this way? And who revolutionizes the way you do business.

True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.