Most of the time you are growing up, people tell you what's wrong with you. Your coach tells you, your parents tell you, the teachers tell you when they grade you. I think that's very good in the early stages, because it helps you then develop skills. But at some point in your career, generally I think when you are in your teens, you look in a mirror and you have to say, despite all the bumps and warts, "I like that person I'm looking at, and let's just do our best."

Don't confuse facts with reality.

Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?

NASA's annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA's budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years.

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

The Titanic will protect itself.

Why are we ignoring the oceans? Why does NASA spend in one year what NOAA will spend in 1600 years? Why are we looking up? Why are we afraid of the ocean?