Tell the truth and not the facts.
Life is too short for long-term grudges.
I'm extremely confident that solar will be at least a plurality of power, and most likely a majority. . . in less than 20 years.
I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably that. So we need to be very careful. . . With artificial intelligence we're summoning the demon.
For me it was never about money, but solving problems for the future of humanity.
I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
My motivation for all my companies has been to be involved in something that I thought would have a significant impact on the world.
It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone.
A schism has taken place among the chemists. A particular set of them in France have undertaken to remodel all the terms of the science, and to give every substance a new name, the composition, and especially the termination of which, shall define the relation in which it stands to other substances of the same family.
The classic theology of my tradition comes from the French Renaissance. [William] Shakespeare was born in 1564, the year [John] Calvin died, and that theology was very influential in England in his lifetime. I think Shakespeare was attentive to questions raised by it, about human nature, history, reality itself. I find the two literatures to be mutually illuminating.
Normal people do not create art.