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

What opened up the American West was the fact that you owned the real estate. You owned the gold mines, the oil wells. The creation of these, back then, million dollar industries drove the railroads and eventually the airlines to provide this kind of transportation.

I think people are dreaming big because they have the tools to dream big. I hope that people are dreaming big because it makes them feel good about their lives.

Small teams driven by their passion with a clear focus can do extraordinary things. Things that only large corporations and governments could do in the past.

The first trillionaire can be made in space.

Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them.

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.