Technology is a resource-liberating force!

Find that thing that you are passionate about, that you will do day or night whether someone pays you or not...because if you have that, you will have gold.

During the next 50 years, in countless cycles, in countless entrepreneurial companies, this let's just go and do it mentality will help us finally get off the planet and irreversibly open the space frontier. The capital and tools are finally being placed into the hands of those willing to risk, willing to fail, willing to follow the dreams.

NASA calls stuff nominal instead of phenomenal, like it really is. So I have given up that there is going to be a balance and NASA is going to do certain things and we are finally in a state of existence where small groups of individuals can do extraordinary things, funded by single people.

More than ever before in history, individuals can now band together to solve grand challenges. We face enormous problems, but we 'as individuals' have enormous power to solve them.

The day before something is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.

I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.