You Could Warm Mars Up, Over Time,

Government Isn't That Good At Rapid Advancement Of Technology. It Tends To Be Better At Funding Basic Research. To Have Things Take Off, You've Got To Have Commercial Companies Do It.

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.

I Think It's Important To Reason From First Principles Rather Than By Analogy. The Normal Way We Conduct Our Lives Is We Reason By Analogy. [with Analogy] We Are Doing This Because It's Like Something Else That Was Done, Or It Is Like What Other People Are Doing. [with First Principles] You Boil Things Down To The Most Fundamental Truths…and Then Reason Up From There.

My Mentality Is That Of A Samurai. I Would Rather Commit Seppuku Than Fail.

Target Launch Date For Falcon I Maiden Flight Is Halloween(october 31) From Our Island Launch Complex In The Kwajalein Atoll. For Potential Customers Out There, I Should Mention That Kwajalein Has Some Of The Worlds Best Scuba Diving And Snorkeling! It Is Literally A Tropical Paradise.