Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy.

A Masai warrior on a cellphone in the middle of Kenya has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25 years ago.

Small teams driven by their passion with a clear focus can do extraordinary things. Things that only large corporations and governments could do in the past.

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.

The paradigm I want to change is that, you can have a car that is beautiful, manufacturable, affordable, safe, fast, and oh, by the way, does 100 mpg, or its energy equivalent. Why wouldn't you?

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