Peter Beck says

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

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“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?”

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

“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.”

“I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.”

—Barack Obama

“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.”

“I've said many times: prototypes are easy, production is hard.”

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

“Boring is good!”

“Constantly think about how you could be doing things better.”

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

—Scott Manley

“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”

“Science is discovering the essential truths about what exists in the Universe, engineering is about creating things that never existed.”

“One of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask. Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy.”

“The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.”