Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.

The folks who go after grand challenges are impatient. They're pissed off. They're sick and tired, but in a passionate way. They're driven by a fire in their bellies to make a difference.

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.

I ended up realizing that NASA was unlikely to get me into space, or get me to the moon or beyond, and I needed some other way to drive this.

You should command and demand the tenfold leverage on your dollars when you give it away as well.