You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.

I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at.

News networks giving a greater voice to viewers because the social web is so popular are like a chef on the Titanic who, seeing the looming iceberg and fleeing customers, figures ice is the future and starts making snow cones.

Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.

The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space-each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.

I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.