Author Nationality

The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we’re not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.

Nationality : South Africa

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.

Nationality : South Africa

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

Nationality : South Africa

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

Nationality : South Africa

It’s very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.

Nationality : South Africa

With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. You know all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he’s like, yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon? Doesn’t work out.

Nationality : South Africa

There’s nothing – I’ve bought everything I want. I don’t like yachts or anything; you know, I’m not a yacht person, and I’ve got pretty much the nicest plane I’d want to have.

Nationality : South Africa

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Nationality : South Africa

I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

Nationality : South Africa

You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on… So it’s a fixer-upper of a planet.

Nationality : South Africa