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

The thing about frontiers, it allows the individuals who are best, whether they're men or women or minorities or whatever, to step to the top. So in traditional societies, old world societies, in the United Kingdom if you would; if you were born into the right stratus, the right class, you had the ability to succeed.

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.

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

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.

Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

I'm not saying we don't have our set of problems - climate crisis, species extinction, water and energy shortage - we surely do. But ultimately we knock them down.