Eh, there's different kinds of ambition. Most of the highly ambitious people I know take living a comfortable life as a necessary starting point for real ambiti

Eh, there's different kinds of ambition. Most of the highly ambitious people I know take living a comfortable life as a necessary starting point for real ambition, because their goals are to make things such as scientific advances, not to spend all their time just trying to make money. I wouldn't call Larry Ellison ambitious, for example. He is just a hard-headed, no-holds-barred businessman who wants to maximize his income. Copenhagen Suborbitals are much more ambitious than Oracle, in my view of ambition. Now a culture in which the likes of Oracle thrive: there is something that sounds like hell to ambitious people.