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.

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.

We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.

People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive.

The rumours of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.