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In the early '90s, well under 5 percent of the global population was online.
Drones watch for disease and collect real-time data on crop health and yields.
By 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty.
You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can’t really fake it.
We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.
Stuff goes wrong. Expect it, learn from it, fix it. That's how remarkable happens.
I had started Zero-G specifically to broaden the public for access to weightlessness.
If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.
In 1980, it cost just under $600 to take a round-trip flight within the United States.
What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.
If you're the CEO of a publicly traded company, you're worried about quarterly returns.
It's easy to forget that for centuries - for millennia - the 'workforce' was all of us.
If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it's worth considering.
Make it clear up front what the aim of the company is. Stay true to your authentic vision.
I believed that once we got to the Moon, there was no stopping us. But in fact, we did stop.
The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.
If you look back 600 years ago, royals' sole goal was to keep their wealth within the family.
Now, we connect via Skype or Google+ Hangout and see our friends' and loved ones' faces live.
Because it's cheaper and easier to fly than ever before, air travel is becoming democratized.
Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.
I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with scriptwriters, producers and directors.
Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.'
3D printing will massively reduce the cost of certain products as the cost of labor is removed.
I'm a nine-year old kid inside and my passion has been all my life to want to travel into space.
As humans, we have evolved to compete... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition.
Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times.
You should command and demand the tenfold leverage on your dollars when you give it away as well.
We are not going to stop here on planet Earth. We're going to move out to other planetary bodies.
The fact that the Virgin logo was on the side of SpaceShipOne on October 4th, 2004 was fantastic.
Private industry's job is to make money. Private industry's job is to create a huge economic engine.
If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.
Imagine what we could do for the world's grand challenges with a trillion hours of focused attention.
My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.
Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.
I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky.
If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.
In 1976, Kodak's first digital camera shot at 0.1 megapixels, weighed 3.75 pounds, and cost over $10,000.
The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions.
Revealing water in significant quantities on the Moon could truly be a turning point in space exploration.
Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation.
In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup.
Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.
As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.
I think that we're living in a time where there are trillion-dollar opportunities that never existed before.
Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.
The idea of a young thin woman who weighs 100 pounds driving herself around in a 4,000 pound SUV is laughable.
We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.
Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.
With faster Internet and better computers, you'd better believe we're creating and consuming more digital data.
A Masai warrior on a cellphone in the middle of Kenya has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25 years ago.