The best way to become a billionaire is to help a billion people.

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.

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

In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space organization. I made posters for a group I called Students for the Exploration and Development of Space and put them up all over campus. Thirty-five people showed up. It was the first thing I ever organized, and it took off!

I believed that once we got to the Moon, there was no stopping us. But in fact, we did stop.

Today, a group of 20 individuals empowered by the exponential growing technologies of AI and robotics and computers and networks and eventually nanotechnology can do what only nation states could have done before.

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