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" For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain. "

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" I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.' "

" I read 'The High Frontier' in high school. I read it multiple times, and I was already primed. As soon as I read it, it made sense to me. It seemed very clear that planetary surfaces were not the right place for an expanding civilization inside our solar system. "

" I grew up reading science fiction. "

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" There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery. "

" I know Elon, we're very like minded in many ways. We're not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it's one thing. He's singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don't find that Plan B idea motivating. I don't want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works. "

" I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures. "

" We're working on New Glenn, which is our orbital vehicle, but we have in our mind's eye an even bigger vehicle called New Armstrong. "

" People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it's cool. "

" When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I'm building infrastructure the hard way. I'm using my resources to put in place heavy lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space. "

" Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration. "

" You want your customers to value your service. "

" Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful. "

" The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works. "

" What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming. "

" If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young. "

" Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that. "

" The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create. "

" The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated. "

" For people who are readers, reading is important to them. "

" I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize. "

" You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day. "

" I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate. "

" The Moon Village concept has a nice property in that it basically just says, 'Look, everybody builds their own lunar outpost, but let's do it close to each other.' That way... you can go over to the European Union lunar outpost and say, 'I'm out of eggs. What have you got?' "

" But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908. "

" You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world. "

" If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail. "

" Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners. "

" I'm a genetic optimist. "

" If you can't tolerate critics, don't do anything new or interesting. "

" It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times. "