What I'm trying to do is to maximise the probability of the future being better.
Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.
The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.
Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry.
I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.
You can just reload, propel it and fly again. This is extremely important for revolutionizing access to space because as long as we continue to throw away rockets and space crafts, we will never truly have access to space.