The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.
Life is too short for long-term grudges.
Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.
The key test for an acronym is to ask whether it helps or hurts communication.
I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.
Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.