Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around earth.

Go to the moon, that's my dream.

Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley.

When burned on a CD, the human genome is smaller than Microsoft Office.

IT is now reaching out to fuels and chemicals, energy and clean tech, rockets, all kinds of bizarre industries that formerly didn’t face much competition.

The commercial space industry is enormous and ripe for disruption.

Biotech 1.0 is slow, like a lab science, and Version 2.0 is more like computational sciences.

Building and launching rockets has been a lifelong hobby that my son and I share. We regularly travel to Nevada's Black Rock Desert to launch rockets.

One tech-related concern with religion is that it appears to be a positive feedback loop to the accelerating rich-poor gap, as the disenfranchised opt out of modernity.

The closer you are to technology, the more you trust it.

In my country, when we think about the future, we shake.

I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.

It's the questions we ask, the journey we take to get to where we are going that is more important than the actual answer.

We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.

I feel like there’s a space of personal freedom for me where my art-making happens. When I go to that space, I’m completely in this world of possibility.

I had very few skills. If I hadn't been a producer I'd been a failed actor. That would have been really disastrous.

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

Happiness is not some 'thing' to be pursued it is a way of being born from appreciating