What I'm trying to do is to maximise the probability of the future being better.

Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.

You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it.

If you go back back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

You want to do things you’re passionate about but also are useful to other people.

It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it's been possible, and that window could be open for a long time - hopefully it is - or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.