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“I’m a big fan of Gagarin’s though. And in fact, I think his first words in space I think are incredible.”
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“I’m a big fan of Gagarin’s though. And in fact, I think his first words in space I think are incredible.”
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01 / belief
“For sure, the first launch and then we’ll see if ESCAPADE goes on that or not. I think that the first launch for sure and I hope ESCAPADE too.”
02 / belief
“There was a whole series of paper cuts and that invention eliminated a bunch of paper cuts. And I think you’re absolutely right by the way, that when you come up with something like 1-Click shopping, again, this is so ingrained in people now, I’m impressed that you even notice it.”
03 / belief
“I care about customer happiness and this metric is worth putting energy into and following and improving and scrutinizing, only in so much as it actually affects customer happiness.”
04 / belief
“Give me a finding shot here maybe, but I think if we are placing reasonable bets on such a thing, in my lifetime, that will continue to be done by professional astronauts.”
05 / belief
“I think if you’re doing … There are human activities where we tolerate more risk if you’re saving somebody’s life, if you are engaging in real exploration.”
06 / belief
“I think we still have yet to see the full repercussions of this, I fear, but I think one of the things that we’ve done online and largely because of social media is we have trained our brains to be really good at processing super short form content.”
07 / belief
“Every launch I go to, for New Shepherd, for other vehicles too, I’m always nervous for these launches. But yes, for sure, a first launch, to have no nervous about that would be some sign of derangement, I think so.”
08 / belief
“I’m not sure what the Soviets thought about Gagarin’s flight, but I think that the Americans thought that the Alan Shepard flight, the flight that New Shepherd is named after, the First American in space, he went on his suborbital flight, they thought he had about a 75% chance of success.”
09 / belief
“I think the mathematical skill required today is so high. You have to be a world-class mathematician to be a successful theoretical physicist today.”
10 / belief
“I think so. But the United States won’t exist. Whole civilizations rise and fall.”