Occupation: Physician Birth: May 20, 1961
Technology is a resource-liberating force!.
The day before something is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea..
If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society..
Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking..
I ended up realizing that NASA was unlikely to get me into space, or get me to the moon or beyond, and I needed some other way to drive this..
Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020..
I believed that once we got to the Moon, there was no stopping us. But in fact, we did stop..
Small teams driven by their passion with a clear focus can do extraordinary things. Things that only large corporations and governments could do in t….
NASA calls stuff nominal instead of phenomenal, like it really is. So I have given up that there is going to be a balance and NASA is going to do cer….
Space is not a two-year objective. It used to be, in the early '60's, we had this eye candy of Mercury and Gemini and Apollo and every year we would ….
Stuff goes wrong. Expect it, learn from it, fix it. That's how remarkable happens..
As you may know, I'm the co-founder and co-chairman of an asteroid company called Planetary Resources that is backed by a group of eight billionaires….
A Masai warrior on a cellphone in the middle of Kenya has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25 years ago..
You've got to choose your horse ahead of time. So, if you're interested in water technology, energy technology, you get to choose between the three o….
The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities..
An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can't be done..
The best way to become a billionaire is to help a billion people..
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, affo….
Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big..
What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck..
You either disrupt your own company or someone else will..