Naveen Jain Quotes

There are few aspects of everyday life that aren't touched by the technologies developed for space travel.

All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.

All space projects push the frontiers of technology and are drivers of innovation.

Throughout history, when societies have been faced with big challenges, they've put their best people on them. During the Space Race, American and Russian scientists, engineers, astronauts and cosmonauts pushed the bounds of what was possible and landed men on the moon.

Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking.

What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable.

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

Some of the most exciting space education in the country is not coming out of Washington or New York or California or even Texas. It's coming from a place in Kansas called the Cosmosphere.

The core of what I do is solve problems, whether that's in graphic engine flow or rockets. I like working on things that are going to have an impact one way or the other.

Throughout Johnson Space Center's history, contributions to STEM innovation and discoveries has been both through new technologies developed to advance human spaceflight and through educating, inspiring, and hiring students in STEM fields.

To do things that are as complicated and challenging as spaceflight, you have to have all disciplines represented to get the job done.

The Enterprise In Space program is an exciting opportunity to simultaneously advance cutting edge technologies while getting students from around the world engaged in STEAM and space education.

When you have different kinds of scientific and mathematical minds approaching problems, you will get more solutions. This leads to more innovation and more creative design.

Development of the space station is as inevitable as the rising of the sun; man has already poked his nose into space and he is not likely to pull it back . . . . There can be no thought of finishing, for aiming at the stars-both literally and figuratively-is the work of generations, and no matter how much progress one makes, there is always the thrill of just beginning.

When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.

Russia can offer state-of-the-art technology, .. For example, we can help other countries launch space devices such as satellites.

When hiring, mix Harvard Nerds with Chicago Improvisers and stir.

The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer

It's the diversity of intelligence, the diversity of creativity, that is so very much necessary to creating whole solutions.

We like to invent new disciplines or look at new problems, and invent bandwagons rather than jump on them.

Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.

Keep a note pad and pencil on your bedside table. Million-dollar ideas sometimes strike at 3 A.M.

If you can't solve a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules

I understand the arguments about how the billions of dollars spent to put men on the moon could have been used to fight poverty and hunger on Earth. But, look, I'm a scientist who sees inspiration as the ultimate tool for doing good. When you use money to fight poverty, it can be of great value, but too often, you're working at the margins. When you're putting people on the moon, you're inspiring all of us to achieve the maximum of human potential, which is how our greatest problems will eventually be solved. Give yourself permission to dream.

The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's gravity, will be gradually diminished till we arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall.