Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.

We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun, you don't have to do anything, it just works. It shows up every day.

The tough thing is figuring out what questions to ask, but […] once you do that, the rest is really easy.

Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.

It's really incumbent upon us as life's agents to extend life to another planet. I think that being a multi-planet species will significantly increase the richness and scope of the human experience.

Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.