In the space business, space had gotten very much to be the aerospace industry. This is something that governments only do and it's where the Boeings and the Lockheed's and the Northrop's and so forth. And there's no way these small companies could do it.

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

Today, philanthropy is a very unsophisticated, old world process where people who make a shitload of money go and give it away and when they're making their money, they're focused on 10x, 100x returns on the dollar.

Technology is a resource-liberating force!

We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy.

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!

A Masai warrior on a cellphone in the middle of Kenya has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25 years ago.