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Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It’s hard to break into a network once it’s formed.

Nationality : South Africa

Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.

Nationality : South Africa

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.

Nationality : South Africa

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.

Nationality : South Africa

Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code – with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It’s very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.

Nationality : South Africa

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.

Nationality : South Africa

I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.

Nationality : South Africa

If humanity doesn’t land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

Nationality : South Africa

I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.

Nationality : South Africa

So we originally expected to make about 35 gigawatt hours at the cell level and about 50 gigawatt hours at the module or pack level. Now we are expecting to do about 150 gigawatt hours in the same volumetric space as the original design.

Nationality : South Africa