To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games. Nothing like saving the world.

You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.

My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

There's a real opportunity to have a vertical takeoff and landing electric supersonic jet.

The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.