The things that I want to see happen get no play in mainstream American politics. My primary interests are the legalization of sex work and prison abolition.
I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
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.
The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.
Life goes on after sorrow, in spite of sorrow, as a defense against sorrow.
They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.
I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies the palace of the soul.