Occupation: Physician Birth: May 20, 1961
By 2020 the U.S. will be short 91,000 doctors. There's no way we can educate enough doctors to make up that shortfall, and other countries are far wo….
The folks who go after grand challenges are impatient. They're pissed off. They're sick and tired, but in a passionate way. They're driven by a fire ….
Today, a group of 20 individuals empowered by the exponential growing technologies of AI and robotics and computers and networks and eventually nanot….
Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big..
You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can’t really fake it..
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 thre….
The thing about frontiers, it allows the individuals who are best, whether they're men or women or minorities or whatever, to step to the top. So in ….
As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet..
The quality of your life is a function of who you go through life with..
The paradigm I want to change is that, you can have a car that is beautiful, manufacturable, affordable, safe, fast, and oh, by the way, does 100 mpg….
We have these 100 mms delays, you know, our attention is on our PDA, we're always in a rush. We drive around in these 4,000 pound metal wombs, these ….
Humans are the worst control system to put in front of a car..
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….
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….
Find that thing that you are passionate about, that you will do day or night whether someone pays you or not...because if you have that, you will hav….
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….
When cars have the sensory systems around them, GPS intelligence, they're looking at the world not only in visual spectrum, but infrared, ultraviolet….
Creating abundance [is] not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility..
What opened up the American West was the fact that you owned the real estate. You owned the gold mines, the oil wells. The creation of these, back th….
In the space business, space had gotten very much to be the aerospace industry. This is something that governments only do and it's where the Boeings….
In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space organization. I made posters for a group I called St….