My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed in Virginia. I'm a Virginian Ballard.

I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.

The Titanic will protect itself.

Everything I'm going to present to you was not in my textbooks when I went to school ... not even in my college textbooks. I'm a geophysicist, and [in] all my Earth science books when I was a student - I had to give the wrong answer to get an A.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

If you plan it out, and it seems logical to you, then you can do it. I discovered the power of a plan.

You can only inspire when you give people a new way of looking at the world in which they live.