Creating abundance [is] not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility.

The idea of a young thin woman who weighs 100 pounds driving herself around in a 4,000 pound SUV is laughable.

The question companies have to ask, or governments have to ask is, where do we allow crazy ideas to bubble up? Because if there is a failure, what happens? Someone gets blame. There's a lawsuit, there's a congressional investigation. And so, those things shut down the creative engine.

If you believe that the developing world deserves the same standards of living that we do in the developed world, then to achieve that, they need resources. They need the metals and the minerals to build the industries and the buildings and so forth, and the energy.

Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can’t really fake it.

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