Sebastian Thrun Quotes

Innovation is what America does best. Whether it is the Apollo Project to the moon, developing the most advanced defense technologies available, the rise of the Internet or the latest advancements in biomedical gene therapies, our nation leads the world in transformative innovations.

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

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

I'm not particularly impressed with going 50 miles per gallon. That doesn't impress me when we can go to the moon.

Buzz Aldrin doesn't think we need to go back to the Moon - that we should go straight on to Mars. I'm more on the side that says we should go back to the Moon. I think there's a lot we can utilise the Moon for scientifically.

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.

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.

The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.

Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.

'Boldly going where hundreds have gone before' does not make headlines.

It's shocking we don't see more engineers and entrepreneurs interested in enterprise.

I believe in entrepreneurs. I believe in their ability to make positive change in the world.

I want manned spaceflight, not just back to the Moon, but beyond that. And I want my daughters and my son to have their own July 20, 1969, to remember. Apollo 11 didn't give us wings; it only showed us how far the wings we had would take us.

As always, space remains an unforgiving frontier, and the skies overhead will surely present obstacles and setbacks that must be overcome. But hard challenges demand fresh approaches, and I'm optimistic that Stratolaunch will yield transformative benefits - not only for scientists and space entrepreneurs, but for all of us.

I'm a very amateur scientist. For me, it started with the Mercury space program and onward to the moon landing in my impressionable adolescent years.

We go across lands, we go across water. And then the next logical step was to start flying just over a hundred years ago and of course, now we're going to look up at the stars and say what's next, what's out there?

At Venture for, we've worked with hundreds of aspiring young entrepreneurs who want to build businesses and change things for the better.

What we do at NASA is inspiring. It's reaching, it's visionary, and it inspires people on Earth to try hard things.

I like new experiences, so I want to promote the same among my colleagues, and this is why I decided to go on this adventure, because I believe going to the Moon will help me create something better.

I will do my best to support science in Korea and space programs in Korea.

Apparently, we've been to the moon in 1969, 1970. We've been there six times, I don't believe a word of it. Some people do.

We have spent billions to go to the moon - we go to this lesser satellite called the moon and say we are in space, but we are in space right now; we just don't feel ourselves to be in space. Some forms of art and some forms of spirituality do give us that sense.

We believe the world changes when the boldest thinking is directed at the toughest problems

People try new things all the time. By now, the people who succeed have to be very sophisticated.

I often hear from new graduates that it's better to wait until you have more experience.... But I'm a big believer in the power of inexperience.... The world needs you before you stop asking naive questions and while you have the time to understand the true nature of the complex problems we face and take them on.