Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.

My goal is there's a new generation of cars. And people can say we're living in a new day and age. A new day and age of cars that are beautiful, affordable, safe, and of course every car gets over 100 mpg, why wouldn't it.

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.

I believed that once we got to the Moon, there was no stopping us. But in fact, we did stop.

Imagine a world of nine billion people with clean water, nutritious food, affordable housing, personalized education, top-tier medical care, and nonpolluting, ubiquitous energy. Building this better world is humanity's grandest challenge.

Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.

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.