Quotes from Steve Jurvetson

There is nothing like visiting a facility to get a sense of how companies work.

When you lower the cost of access to space, a boom of innovation follows, just as low-cost fiber optics paved the way for the Internet and the cloud services that followed.

I would say that nanotech's worth paying attention to no matter what your background because if you look far enough into the future, it'll impact just about any industry you can think of.

I do lament how many investors focus on all the short-term sugar buzz of some marginal improvement in something - nothing history books are ever going to be written about. In many cases, these are quick and easy ways to make money.

I love photography. I love rockets.

Firms that claim domain focus are late movers.

Since the Moon has no atmosphere, it presents a unique orbital opportunity - we could fly incredibly close to the surface while staying in lunar orbit.

A big part of green tech will be organisms that eat waste.

Without disruptions, startups can't survive.

Every new industry has exuberance in advance of reality. The techies get carried away. There is a period of despair. Then the pendulum swings the other way, and people see the long term potential. It's like when the Internet bubble crashed.

Steve Jobs now rests with the sublime satisfaction of symbolic immortality.

In chemicals, Synthetic Genomics is one of my real loves.

While, in general, life satisfaction goes up with wealth, beyond the safety net more and more wealth brings very radically diminishing returns on life satisfaction.

No politician has a 50-year horizon.

I don't want to be a driving machine on my daily commute; I want to be driven by a machine.

One tech-related concern with religion is that it appears to be a positive feedback loop to the accelerating rich-poor gap, as the disenfranchised opt out of modernity.

By day, I'm a venture capitalist. On weekends, I love rockets.

Generally speaking, if you control matter more precisely, you can get more efficiency out of any process.

If you ask any VC what it takes to be successful, you'll get a description that sounds a lot like himself. There's a preference for self-similar individuals.

You've got to close deals quickly, or else you'll miss out.

Beyond self-driving cars, I think all airplanes should go pilotless. Get the pilots out of there. Even better, have no cockpit at all, and turn it into a nice lounge with a bar. Why give people the illusion of control with a steering wheel?

The commercial space industry is enormous and ripe for disruption.

IT is now reaching out to fuels and chemicals, energy and clean tech, rockets, all kinds of bizarre industries that formerly didn't face much competition.

Back when I was a student, I had Steve Jobs over to my house for a fireside chat with the GSB High Tech Club.