“I do want to make something clear: SpaceX does have a lot of governmen...” — Gwynne Shotwell Quote

I do want to make something clear: SpaceX does have a lot of government business, but we execute in a commercial fashion.

I'd love to go to space. I would love to peek out a giant window and look back at the blue marble. There's no question; I'd love to do that.

After I finished my master's degree, I moved to a company called Aerospace Corporation, a big think tank for the U.S. Air Force and the National Reconnaissance Office.

Consolidating to the point of monopoly has never served the consumer - ever.

You can't be on the cusp of innovation and at the forefront of technology if you're wearing blinders. If you don't have an exploration program where you're exploring your world here on Earth, underwater, and in space, then you're wearing blinders and handicapping yourself.

I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

For commercial books in a genre, readers' and editors' expectations may be fairly rigid. Some romance lines, for instance, issue fairly detailed writers' guidelines explaining exactly what must happen in a book they publish (and what must not).

You either have commercial pressure or ideological pressure. I prefer commercial pressure; otherwise, you can be at the mercy of one or two idiots.