When cars have the sensory systems around them, GPS intelligence, they're looking at the world not only in visual spectrum, but infrared, ultraviolet and everything else that's going on and they've got reaction times in microseconds. Not a tenth of a second. They're a hundred thousand times faster.

Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.

Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.

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.

The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.

Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success.

One of my goals is to reinvent philanthropy.