Funded by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from the people. Sometimes people forget that that’s really what occurs.
I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.
I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.
Humans need to be a multiplanet species.
I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
Every mode of transport that we use – whether it’s planes, trains, automobiles, bikes, horses – is reusable, but not rockets. So we must solve this problem in order to become a space-faring civilization.
Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
You can just reload, propel it and fly again. This is extremely important for revolutionizing access to space because as long as we continue to throw away rockets and space crafts, we will never truly have access to space.
I’m increasingly inclined to think there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish.
It’s a fixer-upper of a planet but we could make it work.
We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.
With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.
Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.
When you struggle with a problem, that’s when you understand it.
I hate writing about personal stuff. I don’t have a Facebook page. I don’t use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don’t use them.
For my part, I will never give up, and I mean never.
I want to make rockets 100 times, if not 1,000 times better. The ultimate objective is to make humanity a multiplanet species. Thirty years from now, there’ll be a base on the moon and on Mars, and people will be going back and forth on SpaceX rockets.
Many things are improbable, only a few are impossible.
As a child I would just question things...
With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it’s like, yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon. Didn’t work out.