“Weighing too much on someone’s talent and not someone’s personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.”

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

No I don’t ever give up. I would have to be dead or completely incapacitated.

The thing that’s worth doing is trying to improve our understanding of the world and gain a better appreciation of the universe and not to worry too much about there being no meaning.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

If humanity doesn’t land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

You want to do things you’re passionate about but also are useful to other people.

Government isn’t that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you’ve got to have commercial companies do it.

I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

Great differences in technology exist in the world about which even hardcore technologists are unaware.

Many things are improbable, only a few are impossible.

The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it’s going to become multiplanetary, or it’s going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there’s going to be an extinction event.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Moral condemnation used not for morality, but as a weapon for manipulation is messed up

The path to the CEO’s office should not be through the CFO’s office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences – is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.

Enrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you.

If you’re going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you’re not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you’re probably doing something wrong.

If you want to understand science, you have to understand math. In business, if you’re enumerate, you’re going to be a klutz. The good thing about business is that you don’t have to know any higher math.

The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.

If your guard is up, let it down. If you’ve constructed a defensive wall to protect yourself and keep all the bad guys out, don’t forget who that wall also prevents from getting in – the good guys.

The truth is, you don’t break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.

Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.