It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.

The first question we would ask if aliens landed on this planet is not, 'What does this mean for the economy or jobs?' It would be, 'Are they friendly or unfriendly?'

People working on bigger ideas on a more protracted timeline will be more on the stealth side. They aren’t releasing new PR announcements every day. The bigger the secret and the likelier it is that you alone have it, the more time you have to execute. There may be far more people going after hard secrets than we think.

What is it about our society where anyone who does not have Asperger's gets talked out of their heterodox ideas?

Every time you write an email, it is in the public domain. There are all these ways where security is not as good as people believe.

Creating value isn't enough - you also need to capture some of the value you create.