Quotes About Innovation

Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.

I don't want to sound like anyone else, I wanted to be in my own creative space and find this river of melody myself.

Giving yourself space and time can actually lead to the birth of more creativity, better creativity, and some of your best work.

In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration.

The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.

If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.

I have absolutely no idea about space exploration. I'm a software guy. But because I'm a non-expert, I've been able to bring the software concept of modularity into the space sector, which was never done before.

I have dedicated my life to answering the great scientific questions of our time and to the incredible adventure of space exploration.

It's so astounding the amount of sacrifice the astronauts have to go through to do what they do and all the science involved in space exploration.

Well, with so many space shuttle missions that we've done, I think it's just sort of natural that each one hasn't necessarily gotten the attention that the early ones did.

If you gave kids peas that didn't look like peas and said they were a space shuttle, they're much more apt to eat them because it's now playtime.

I asked someone once why he liked Jean-Michel's work and why it was being singled out for acclaim, and he said, 'Because it looks like art.' But then again, art doesn't always look like art at first. The way the space shuttle that lifts off doesn't much resemble the space shuttle as it lands.

It's pretty amazing to me that we have had a space shuttle program that's lasted for 30 years - for one space shuttle. That's quite an achievement.

I believe you'll see a low Earth orbit space travel business begin.

Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin, the space shuttle ended up being more dangerous and more expensive to fly than those first throwaway rockets, even though large portions of it were reusable. It's absurd.

It was the era when women were in the kitchen. Space travel was the old-boy network.

There's going to be space travel at some point.

I left Aerospace because I wanted to go build, and put spacecraft together.

I think every time we send a spacecraft to an asteroid or comet, we learn more.

Spaceflight, especially in the Mercury spacecraft, clearly wasn't going to be much like flying an airplane.

So with 'Ascent,' one of the things I wanted to do was not make it too remote from the reader, for it to be engaged with the human side and not just to be about the cold metal of planes and spacecraft.

To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, it's going to be heartbreaking.

I don't think we're going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft.

One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't done one for many, many years, is the fact that everything is used up. Every type of spacesuit is used up, every type of spacecraft is vaguely familiar, the corridors are similar, and the planets are similar.