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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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" 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. "

Steve Jurvetson

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World

Technology

" Being slick is not the right answer. "

" Building and launching rockets has been a lifelong hobby that my son and I share. We regularly travel to Nevada's Black Rock Desert to launch rockets. "

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

" No politician has a 50-year horizon. "

Steve Jurvetson

Horizon

Politician

" IT is now reaching out to fuels and chemicals, energy and clean tech, rockets, all kinds of bizarre industries that formerly didn't face much competition. "

" The economies of the future are information. "

" Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley. "

" When you lower the cost of access to space, a boom of innovation follows, just as low-cost fiber optics paved the way for the Internet and the cloud services that followed. "

" I don't want to be a driving machine on my daily commute; I want to be driven by a machine. "

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

" Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around Earth. "

Steve Jurvetson

Cost

People

" When I was 11, I went to space camp at the Space Center in Texas, near where I grew up. There, I met video-game-industry pioneer Richard Garriott, better known to gamers everywhere as 'Ultima' creator Lord British. "

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

" A big part of green tech will be organisms that eat waste. "

" In general, when it comes to AI, many of us subconsciously cling to the selfish notion that humanity is the endpoint of evolution. "

" 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. "

" Steve Jobs was my hero. "

" Elon Musk wins you over with his elegant mastery of engineering, be it for the rocket or the car. But what blew my socks off was when our conversation veered way off topic. We started musing about whether it was possible we all lived in the matrix, and Musk still had deep knowledge. "

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

" Development of space will improve life on Earth. Access to space is important for agriculture, humanitarian efforts, communications, and navigation. "

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

" The closer you are to technology, the more you trust it. "

Steve Jurvetson

Closer

Technology

" You have to build businesses for longer term. "

" If your startup is only in the development or idea stage, there is almost no better predictor of failure - I mean, utter failure, scorched-earth bankruptcy - than raising too much money in the first round. "

" I would say that nanotech's worth paying attention to no matter what your background because if you look far enough into the future, it'll impact just about any industry you can think of. "

" Every new industry has exuberance in advance of reality. The techies get carried away. There is a period of despair. Then the pendulum swings the other way, and people see the long term potential. It's like when the Internet bubble crashed. "

" The commercial space industry is enormous and ripe for disruption. "