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" Since the Moon has no atmosphere, it presents a unique orbital opportunity - we could fly incredibly close to the surface while staying in lunar orbit. "

Steve Jurvetson

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" The first generation of biotech physically cut and pasted from one organism to another. You learned that taxol helped cure cancer, then you found the source organism and extracted the genes to make your drug. Now physical science is becoming information science. "

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" Before SpaceX, no space company was worth a second meeting. "

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" If there isn't a business logic to get to marketability, the chance of an idea's importance in the world is very low. "

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" Eventually, all cars are going to be autonomous. "

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" SpaceX lowered the cost of going into space by 10x. "

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" There aren't many sources of money in San Diego, apart from local partnerships and local investors. It's pretty starkly polarized to Silicon Valley. "

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" I don't really care what the venture industry thinks. "

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" The beauty of compounding iterative algorithms - evolution, fractals, organic growth, art - derives from their irreducibility. "

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" There was a time and a place when a pure content start-up had a chance, and that time has passed. "

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" There is no correlation between a weak IPO market and an impact on early-stage VCs. "

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" One tech-related concern with religion is that it appears to be a positive feedback loop to the accelerating rich-poor gap, as the disenfranchised opt out of modernity. "

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" Steve Jobs now rests with the sublime satisfaction of symbolic immortality. "

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" If I want to make a product that is appealing to consumers, like a piece of clothing or a video game, that's fad driven. Some companies do it, and I don't know how they do it, but it's generally a bad place to invest. "

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" My interest in space started early, but for many years, I could not find any space-related investments that really penciled-out for venture. That changed in 2009 when Elon Musk came to us with a big vision to explore Mars while producing rockets at a fraction of a price and making space accessible. "

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" Elon Musk is an incredible leader and entrepreneur. I have known him since 1995 when he first came to Silicon Valley. "

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" The economies of the future are information. "

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" Go to the moon - that's my dream. "

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" I've always been a fan of space exploration, and I filled our entire office with space artifacts. "

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" By the time people came to realize that free, Web-based email was indeed a hot idea, Hotmail was adding 1 million new subscribers a month. "

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" No politician has a 50-year horizon. "

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" If you ask any VC what it takes to be successful, you'll get a description that sounds a lot like himself. There's a preference for self-similar individuals. "

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" Beyond self-driving cars, I think all airplanes should go pilotless. Get the pilots out of there. Even better, have no cockpit at all, and turn it into a nice lounge with a bar. Why give people the illusion of control with a steering wheel? "

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" History has proven time and again that downturns are the best time to invest in new start-ups. You get good deals and find a better environment for start-ups to grow. "

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" I do lament how many investors focus on all the short-term sugar buzz of some marginal improvement in something - nothing history books are ever going to be written about. In many cases, these are quick and easy ways to make money. "

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" Rockets often spiral out of control if you put too much propellant in them. "

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" I love what I do. I love to learn. "

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" The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it's going to just get more unpredictable. "

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" Personally, I do not look at IPOs for an exit. "

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" We're impressed by people who don't know what can't be done. "

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" I believe that technology has the potential to change the fate of nations, industries and companies, as well as the context of our lives. I want to help build the companies that take the risks needed to make those kinds of real changes in the world. "

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