Occupation: Physician Birth: May 20, 1961
The first trillionaire can be made in space..
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 t….
When faced without a challenge, make one.
You should command and demand the tenfold leverage on your dollars when you give it away as well..
You could not legally put a human and fly them into space. In fact, you couldn't bring a spaceship back. All those spaceships we were sending commerc….
You've got to choose your horse ahead of time. So, if you're interested in water technology, energy technology, you get to choose between the three o….
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..
Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what theyve already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can t….
The idea of a young thin woman who weighs 100 pounds driving herself around in a 4,000 pound SUV is laughable..
Imagine a world of nine billion people with clean water, nutritious food, affordable housing, personalized education, top-tier medical care, and nonp….
We are not going to stop here on planet Earth. We're going to move out to other planetary bodies..
I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky..
My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species..
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 makin….
The price to generate a megawatt or a gigawatt of energy is coming down year after year. We're learning how to print it, make it more efficient..
I ended up realizing that NASA was unlikely to get me into space, or get me to the moon or beyond, and I needed some other way to drive this..
During the next 50 years, in countless cycles, in countless entrepreneurial companies, this let's just go and do it mentality will help us finally ge….
If you believe that the developing world deserves the same standards of living that we do in the developed world, then to achieve that, they need res….
True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses..
If you stop and you think about everything we hold of value on this planet, metal, minerals, energy, real estate, the things that nations fight wars ….
The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars..