“Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.”

For me it was never about money, but solving problems for the future of humanity.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.

Goal of government should be to maximize the happiness of the people. Giving each person money allows them to decide what meets their needs, rather than the blunt tool of legislation, which creates self-serving special interests.

Work like hell.

Only the heart senses beauty.

Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

When people really understand it’s do or die . If we work hard and pull through, it’s going to be a great outcome; people will give it everything they’ve got.

Math jokes have a small audience.

Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.

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.

You realize as a director that when you are cutting a film, you want to have alternatives. You need color and choices. You don’t want four takes that are identical.

To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.

I don’t think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it’s only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect.

There is no alternative to success. So stop thinking you should already be there.

The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.

Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.

When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.