If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can’t be breakthroughs.
We are not going to stop here on planet Earth. We’re going to move out to other planetary bodies.
The best way to become a billionaire is to help a billion people.
I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.
Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.
If you stop and you think about everything we hold of value on this planet, metal, minerals, energy, real estate, the things that nations fight wars over. These things are in near infinite quantities out there.
True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.
You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can’t really fake it.
An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can’t be done.
Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there’s a chance of success.
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.
More than ever before in history, individuals can now band together to solve grand challenges. We face enormous problems, but we ‘as individuals’ have enormous power to solve them.
When faced without a challenge, make one.
If you give people unlimited time and money, they’ll do things the same old way. But if they have to achieve the goal in a brief time, they’ll either give up or try something new.
Stuff goes wrong. Expect it, learn from it, fix it. That’s how remarkable happens.
The question companies have to ask, or governments have to ask is, where do we allow crazy ideas to bubble up? Because if there is a failure, what happens? Someone gets blame. There’s a lawsuit, there’s a congressional investigation. And so, those things shut down the creative engine.
Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.
Large companies and government agencies have a lot to protect and therefore are not willing to take big risks. A large company taking a risk can threaten its stock price. A government agency taking a risk can threaten congressional investigation.
The price to generate a megawatt or a gigawatt of energy is coming down year after year. We’re learning how to print it, make it more efficient.
I think people are dreaming big because they have the tools to dream big. I hope that people are dreaming big because it makes them feel good about their lives.