Steve Jurvetson quotes

“It is this breathtaking image [of] success that motivates us and motivates kids to follow and understand rocket science: to understand the importance of physics and math and, in many ways, to have that awe at exploration of the frontiers of the unknown.”
-- Steve Jurvetson

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“When burned on a CD, the human genome is smaller than Microsoft Office.”
-- Steve Jurvetson

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“Go to the moon, that's my dream.”
-- Steve Jurvetson

Source : "Here's Why Investor Steve Jurvetson Saved Elon Musk's Space Dreams" by Julie Bort, www.businessinsider.com. September 14, 2012.

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“Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around earth,”
-- Steve Jurvetson

Source : "Here's Why Investor Steve Jurvetson Saved Elon Musk's Space Dreams". Interview with Julie Bort, www.businessinsider.com. September 14, 2012.

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“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.”
-- Steve Jurvetson

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“The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it’s going to just get more unpredictable. If you thought financial crises came and went, just count on them – another economic collapse, it’s almost going to be like not news any more. But for startups this is great, because it’s a perpetual driver of disruption.”
-- Steve Jurvetson

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“When a nanotech company matures and becomes a real business, it becomes something else. It becomes a biotech company or a cleantech company or a memory chip company. Nanotechnology has fueled the core innovations in electronics and energy.”
-- Steve Jurvetson

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“Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley.”
-- Steve Jurvetson

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“When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation in the right place. Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he's got his heart in the right place.”

Source : "An Interview with Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys". Interview with David Flumenbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2008.

“True religion is a universal and (necessarily) ego-transcending psycho-physical motivation of human beings. However, up to the present stage in human history, only relatively few individuals in any generation have been willing and able to make the gesture that is true religion (or, otherwise, true esotericism). In their great numbers, most people have, up to now, never yet been ready or willing to adapt to the true (and progressive) practical, moral, devotional, Spiritual, and Transcendental Wisdom-culture of right life.”

“They say before you make something happen you have to see it yourself. I have been seeing it for a long time and I am living my dream.”

“When I want to talk to someone from Golden Boy, I make sure Richard calls me. Bosses talk to bosses.”

“Chop your own path. Get off the car track”

“I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.”

“You have to dream before your dreams can come true.”

Source : Joyce Brothers (1985). “How to get whatever you want out of life”

“We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.”

“He isn’t like us Low. You know that right.” I knew what Cage was saying. Marcus was out of my league. He didn’t want me thinking there could ever be anything between me and his roommate. I was low class. Marcus was a rich kid. “I’m not stupid Cage.”

“My girl and my kid gets the best, always.”