We're working to lower the cost of spaceflight so that many people can afford to go and so that we humans can better continue exploring the solar system. Accomplishing this mission will take time, and we're working on it methodically.

I feel like in one year it's very easy to go from Internet poster boy to Internet piсata.

The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking.

Percentage margins are not one of the things we are seeking to optimize. It’s the absolute dollar free cash flow per share that you want to maximize, and if you can do that by lowering margins, we would do that. So if you could take the free cash flow, that’s something that investors can spend. Investors can’t spend percentage margins.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

Lowering prices is easy. Being able to afford to lower prices is hard.

I told all of our original investors that they would lose their money for sure.