Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

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.

Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them.

The day before something is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.

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.

NASA calls stuff nominal instead of phenomenal, like it really is. So I have given up that there is going to be a balance and NASA is going to do certain things and we are finally in a state of existence where small groups of individuals can do extraordinary things, funded by single people.

Stuff goes wrong. Expect it, learn from it, fix it. That's how remarkable happens.