My Mentality Is That Of A Samurai.

It's Really Incumbent Upon Us As Life's Agents To Extend Life To Another Planet. I Think That Being A Multi-planet Species Will Significantly Increase The Richness And Scope Of The Human Experience.

Boeing Just Took $20 Billion And 10 Years To Improve The Efficiency Of Their Planes By 10 Percent. That's Pretty Lame. I Have A Design In Mind For A Vertical Liftoff Supersonic Jet That Would Be A Really Big Improvement.

There Are Really Two Things That Have To Occur In Order For A New Technology To Be Affordable To The Mass Market. One Is You Need Economies Of Scale. The Other Is You Need To Iterate On The Design. You Need To Go Through A Few Versions.

The Space Shuttle Was Often Used As An Example Of Why You Shouldn't Even Attempt To Make Something Reusable. But One Failed Experiment Does Not Invalidate The Greater Goal. If That Was The Case, We'd Never Have Had The Light Bulb.

I Always Had An Existential Crisis, Trying To Figure Out ‘what Does It All Mean?’ I Came To The Conclusion That If We Can Advance The Knowledge Of The World, If We Can Expand The Scope And Scale Of Consciousness, Then, We’re Better Able To Ask The Right Questions And Become More Enlightened. That’s The Only Way To Move Forward.