Robert Shapiro Quotes

When you look at the origins and evolution of life on Earth, it's been severely affected by asteroid impacts through history.

120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.

Picture yourself five years from now. Where do you want to be? Remember that. Every day. That's how you'll get there.

If you were to take the lessons and experiences you've acquired in the past one year, five years or 10 years and skillfully invest that into your future, how powerful would that be? Where would you find yourself at the end of the next year?

I exercise a lot and I love it. I'm fine. But you know, I'd like to be alive in ten years, that'd be my first priority.

When the first man created Himself, He was the light of the circle. Then He willed the sun into being It was 6 trillion years between the making of the sun and the creation of man.

[On bebop years] All I did was sing 'How High the Moon.' It seemed like the only song I ever sang.

The light of the moon is all we've got to go on...

Most educated people are aware that we are the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think that humans are somehow the culmination. Our sun, however, is less than halfway through its lifespan. It will not be humans who watch the sun’s demise, 6 billion years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae.

A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.

I want to make rockets 100 times, if not 1,000 times better. The ultimate objective is to make humanity a multiplanet species. Thirty years from now, there'll be a base on the moon and on Mars, and people will be going back and forth on SpaceX rockets.

In other words, I'm not intending to start from things that require a five-year development time.

Last century, when the beams needed replacing, carpenters used oak trees that had been planted in 1386 when the dining hall was first built. The 14th-century builder had planted the trees in anticipation of the time, hundreds of years in the future, when the beams would need replacing. Did the carpenters plant new trees to replace the beams again a few hundred years from now?

The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.

But I'm really trying to run this company like it is going to be here a hundred years from now. That's what's important.

There has been an earth for a little more than a billion years. As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait and see!

The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.

If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades.

But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask; why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

The shuttle tomorrow is truly like laying the last spike on the transcontinental railroad, only much more so. And whether or not we're going to see in in the next 10 or 20 years, there are people alive today who will see manufacturing in space from moon materials or from asteroids.

Develop a clear vision for your organization. Where do you want to be in five years?

Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.

No one ever thinks about what the hell is going to happen 25 years from now.

Whatever you do, don’t wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life.

Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.