Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
On one of the SpaceX flights, we had a secret payload: a wheel of cheese. We flew to orbit and brought it back, so it was the world’s first ‘space cheese.’ It was, in part, a tribute to Monty Python.
What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.
Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people’s progress.
When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.
There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn’t how we’ve approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.
Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers – organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative – if we don’t solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
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