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"Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement."
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"Convert everything around you into meaningful products."

"Observation is a critical activity in the innovation process to understand the context of an issue from a human perspective."

"I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?'"

"One of my relatives invented the sensory deprivation tank. Appropriately, most of my family has never seen or heard of him."

"The future belongs to those societies that treat new ideas as delicate, fragile and immensely valuable pathways to the future."

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"I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future."

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"The greatest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."

"I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google."

"An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us."

"I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view."

"If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way. And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations."

"It's obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient way to use cellulose is to burn it in a co-generation power plant. That will yield the most energy and that is something you can do today."

"In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution."
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