I’m nauseatingly pro-American. I would have come here from any country. The U.S. is where great things are possible.

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.

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.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

I always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out ‘what does it all mean?’ I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world, if we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, then, we’re better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened. That’s the only way to move forward.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.