Tag: Jeff Bezos
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The Apollo program certainly had no real commercial value. It was done for very different reasons and, I think, very good reasons for the time. It’s an extraordinary achievement of mankind, but it wasn’t sustainable.
Jeff Bezos
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I’m a genetic optimist.
Jeff Bezos
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When we build our own colonies, we can do them in near-Earth vicinity, because people are going to want to come back to Earth. Very few people – for a long time, anyway – are going to want to abandon Earth altogether.
Jeff Bezos
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I don’t want to use my creative energy on somebody else’s user interface.
Jeff Bezos
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If your payloads cost hundreds of millions of dollars, they actually cost more than the launch. It puts a lot of pressure on the launch vehicle not to change, to be very stable. Reliability becomes much more important than the cost. It’s hard to get off of that equilibrium.
Jeff Bezos
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One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.
Jeff Bezos
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People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.
Jeff Bezos
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Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.
Jeff Bezos
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I think the definition of a book is changing.
Jeff Bezos
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The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
Jeff Bezos