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If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.
In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.
In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business.
In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.
It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don't think it's possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.
It is theoretically possible to warp spacetime itself, so you're not actually moving faster than the speed of light, but it's actually space that's moving.
It is true that SpaceX is partially a government contractor, but it would be unfair to say that SpaceX is entirely a government contractor.
It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will.
It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it's been possible, and that window could be open for a long time - hopefully it is - or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.
It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere.
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.
It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
It's very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.
Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.
Life is too short for long-term grudges.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.
My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.
My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.
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