At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency, designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit card fees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions all good things

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

By 2020 the U.S. will be short 91,000 doctors. There's no way we can educate enough doctors to make up that shortfall, and other countries are far worse off.

If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.

Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky.

What opened up the American West was the fact that you owned the real estate. You owned the gold mines, the oil wells. The creation of these, back then, million dollar industries drove the railroads and eventually the airlines to provide this kind of transportation.