I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.
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?
You either disrupt your own company or someone else will.
Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what theyve already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can topple their legacy – not exactly the attitude you want when trying to drive innovation forward.
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.
A Masai warrior on a cellphone in the middle of Kenya has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25 years ago.
Research shows that the wealthier, more educated, and healthier a nation, the less violence and civil unrest among its populace, and the less likely that unrest will spread across its borders.
If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.
We have these 100 mms delays, you know, our attention is on our PDA, we’re always in a rush. We drive around in these 4,000 pound metal wombs, these 4,000 pound containment systems to protect us from these 6,000 pound cars from smacking us.
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.
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.
Back in 2007, I had the opportunity to meet Professor Stephen Hawking through the X PRIZE Foundation. In my first conversation with him I learned that he was passionate about flying into space someday.
Without risks, there can’t be breakthroughs.
If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it’s worth considering.
When cars have the sensory systems around them, GPS intelligence, they’re looking at the world not only in visual spectrum, but infrared, ultraviolet and everything else that’s going on and they’ve got reaction times in microseconds. Not a tenth of a second. They’re a hundred thousand times faster.
The quality of your life is a function of who you go through life with.
The world’s biggest problems are the world’s biggest business opportunities.
Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.
The idea of a young thin woman who weighs 100 pounds driving herself around in a 4,000 pound SUV is laughable.
As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they’ll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.