Peter Beck: Boring is good!

“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

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

—Elon Musk

“The Best Part Is No Part...”

—Elon Musk

“It's a lot easier to build something bigger than smaller.”

—Peter Beck

“Archimedes is the boringest engine that we can build in a lot of sense.”

—Peter Beck

“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

“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

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

—Scott Manley

“That always seemed to be the dumbest constraint you can imagine as like the dome of the rocket is set by the lowest bridge between California and Florida.”

—Peter Beck

“I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.”

—Elon Musk

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

—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

“It is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.”

—Elon Musk

“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

“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour.”

—Elon Musk

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