Weighing someone’s talent too much and not their personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
If something is important enough, you should try, even if the probable outcome is failure.
Talent is extremely important. It’s like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there’s a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ.
I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
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.