Great Companies Are Built On Great Products.

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.

Funded By The Government Just Means Funded By The People. Government, By The Way, Has No Money. It Only Takes Money From The People. Sometimes People Forget That That's Really What Occurs.

It Is Despairing To Consider That The Cost And Reliability Of Access To Space Have Barely Changed Since The Apollo Era Over Three Decades Ago. Yet In Virtually Every Other Field Of Technology, We Have Made Great Strides In Reducing Cost And Increasing Capability.

It Would Take Six Months To Get To Mars If You Go There Slowly, With Optimal Energy Cost. Then It Would Take Eighteen Months For The Planets To Realign. Then It Would Take Six Months To Get Back, Though I Can See Getting The Travel Time Down To Three Months Pretty Quickly If America Has The Will.

If Humanity Doesn't Land On Mars In My Lifetime, I Would Be Very Disappointed.