Stuff goes wrong. Expect it, learn from it, fix it. That's how remarkable happens.

If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.

We are not going to stop here on planet Earth. We're going to move out to other planetary bodies.

I believed that once we got to the Moon, there was no stopping us. But in fact, we did stop.

I became very much, if I have to describe myself, I'm sort of a Libertarian Capitalist, and I was looking for, what's the economic engine that's going to drive us into space?

I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.

In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space organization. I made posters for a group I called Students for the Exploration and Development of Space and put them up all over campus. Thirty-five people showed up. It was the first thing I ever organized, and it took off!