Elon Musk: When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour.

“We’re going to build a road to space so that our kids and their kids can build the future. And we need to do that. We need to do that to solve the problems here on Earth. It’s not about escaping.”

—Jeff Bezos

“Like a rocket is just a giant engineering compromise, and you just have to choose where you're gonna eat the pain and you can choose it in propulsion. You can choose it in structures. You know, where is the bit that's gonna destroy your life?”

—Peter Beck

“A rocket is a huge engineering compromise.”

—Peter Beck

“Boring is good!”

—Peter Beck

“We need to take all heavy industry, all polluting industry, and move it into space. And keep Earth as this beautiful gem of a planet that it is.”

—Jeff Bezos

“I wonder how many dead one-planet civilizations are out there in the cosmos that never made it to the other planet and ultimately extinguished themselves or were destroyed by external factors. Probably a few.”

—Elon Musk

“If humanity is to become multi-planetary, the fundamental breakthrough that needs to occur in rocketry is a rapidly and completely reusable rocket … achieving it would be on a par with what the Wright brothers did. It’s the fundamental thing that’s necessary for humanity to become a space-faring civilization. America would never have been colonized if ships weren’t reusable.”

—Elon Musk

“I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness, to make sure it continues into the future”

—Elon Musk

“The Best Part Is No Part...”

—Elon Musk

“Humanity has been small. That’s not true anymore. The Earth is no longer big. Humanity is big. Earth seems big to us, but it’s finite.”

—Jeff Bezos

“There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.”

—Elon Musk

“You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.”

—Elon Musk

“Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.”

—Elon Musk

“If only international politics and relations was as easy as rocket science.”

—Scott Manley

“I think it would be great to be born on Earth and die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact.”

—Elon Musk

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