I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.

I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

You need to live in a dome initially but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on. ... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.

As a child I would just question things.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.

No I don't ever give up. I would have to be dead or completely incapacitated