“Difficult situations require compassion, level-headedness & the empathy to see issues from somebody else’s perspective.”

There was more data transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than the entire history of the Internet through 2009.

Starting a company is a cause, not a job. Once it becomes a job, that’s when you lose

I’m proud to call myself a Mashable alumnus.

More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.

Relationships are the key element to Press & PR

The big reason why we don’t have space colonies and regular trips to the moon is that flying into outer space is just plain ‘hard.’ The business of safely transporting people off the Earth is a costly affair that requires a lot of technology.

Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie or a video game, and the automatic restarts can result in lost data or confused users.

Start with local press first. Start with people you know. Don’t pitch every journalist.

If you can’t build relationships from nothing, you will fail. You must have that drive.

The world’s most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.

Google is famous for making the tiniest changes to pixel locations based on the data it accrues through its tests. Google will always choose a spartan webpage that converts over a beautiful page that doesn’t have the data to back it up.

The more PR buzzwords you include in your press release, the less likely I am to write you up

Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someone else’s philosophy, but staying true to your own beliefs about the world and learning from the mistakes you make along the way.

Don’t let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.

Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens up the possibility of commercial space stations, trips to the moon and exploration beyond.

Attention is the most important currency that anybody can give you. It’s worth more than money, possession, or things.

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.

[It is] one of the most complex and emotional issues of out time.

My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically – and destructively – demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.

Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.

Who knows when Donald Trump will have a press conference? Maybe he’s just going to stay in Trump Tower and issue tweets – you know, gold-plated tweets to the American people. It’s scary.

Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it’s only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue. It may not be too late if we take decisive actions today.

I’m trying to engage issues of power and sexuality and money and life and death and power. Power is the most free-flowing element in society, maybe next to money, but in fact they both motor each other.