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

If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

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

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.

It's sad that the U.S. government doesn't fund risky research anymore.

Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.

I'm extraordinarily passionate about the idea of asteroid mining in the future. Asteroids out there, we know them from those that have fallen on the Earth, there is a class of asteroids, sub-class of nickel/iron asteroids, which are 50,000 times more enriched than Platinum mines on earth.