We Need To Be Super

There's A Fundamental Difference, If You Sort Of Look Into The Future, Between A Humanity That Is A Space-faring Civilization, That's Out There Exploring The Stars...compared With One Where We Are Forever Confined To Earth Until Some Eventual Extinction Event.

My Vision Is For A Fully Reusable Rocket Transport System Between Earth And Mars That Is Able To Re-fuel On Mars - This Is Very Important - So You Don't Have To Carry The Return Fuel When You Go There.

Let's Think Beyond The Normal Stuff And Have An Environment Where That Sort Of Thinking Is Encouraged And Rewarded And Where It's Okay To Fail As Well. Because When You Try New Things, You Try This Idea, That Idea... Well A Large Number Of Them Are Not Gonna Work, And That Has To Be Okay. If Every Time Somebody Comes Up With An Idea It Has To Be Successful, You're Not Gonna Get People Coming Up With Ideas.

To Make An Embarrassing Admission, I Like Video Games. That's What Got Me Into Software Engineering When I Was A Kid. I Wanted To Make Money So I Could Buy A Better Computer To Play Better Video Games. Nothing Like Saving The World.

The Biggest Mistake, In General, I've Made, Is To Put Too Much Of A Weighting On Someone's Talent And Not Enough On Their Personality. And I've Made That Mistake Several Times. I Think It Actually Matters Whether Somebody Has A Good Heart, It Really Does. I've Made The Mistake Of Thinking That It's Sometimes Just About The Brain.