Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.

I'm a nine-year old kid inside and my passion has been all my life to want to travel into space.

Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.

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.

The paradigm I want to change is that, you can have a car that is beautiful, manufacturable, affordable, safe, fast, and oh, by the way, does 100 mpg, or its energy equivalent. Why wouldn't you?