I must say I have turned down several great companies, so I'd probably say I have to keep learning.

While I'd like to believe that I'm not a bad or evil person, regardless, it's clear that some of my past actions have hurt or offended several women. And I probably deserve to be called a creep.

I aim to combine all the things I do in a comprehensive and holistic fashion that benefits startups and the people who make them grow.

There's been entrepreneurs working in the Valley for probably 50-60 years. It's not to say that you can't create that in other places, but I think people are a little bit impatient about creating the next Silicon Valley.

Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.

To me, the most exciting thing about the discovery of the Higgs particle is that its existence was predicted fifty years before its discovery through experiment.

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

Science trumps magical thinking: there was a reason the Incas called their mercury mine 'la mina de los muertos,' the mine of the dead. Building a life and a community upon principles that ignore such realities is doomed to fail.