What have I got better than anyone? Age.
Every big problem is a big opportunity.
The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.
Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.
Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?
Future is not extrapolation of past
If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.
It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else
My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung.
The power of beauty at work in man, as the artist has always known, is severe and exacting, and once evoked, will never leave him alone, until he brings his work and life into some semblance of harmony with its spirit.
This is love if it's not with you, a terrible fiery something that makes people look away, and it feels like a punch in the throat.