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"Some facts have been explored at deeper level others not... but still there will come one question probably you will thought that what you see outside of the Earth I mean in the space... that's all... but unfortunately, it's not all there is more and more out there!"

"Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian."

"I feel very privileged to be part of this mission, and when my nomination was announced, I was really very, very happy to be selected for this mission."

"A hole is a space where everything has been moved out so that opportunity has space to move in."

"I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head."

"Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done."

"I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people."
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"If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman."

"SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete."

"Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian."

"We need to do things that are important and useful, as opposed to things that are easy and meaningless."

"I don't believe in failure. It is just the opportunity to start again with better information."

"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."

"I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens."

"The greatest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."

"If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion."
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