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

I want to make rockets 100 times, if not 1,000 times better. The ultimate objective is to make humanity a multiplanet species. Thirty years from now, there'll be a base on the moon and on Mars, and people will be going back and forth on SpaceX rockets.

The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.

It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.