“It is despairing to consider that the cost and reliability of access to space have barely changed since the Apollo era over three decades ago. Yet in virtually every other field of technology, we have made great strides in reducing cost and increasing capability.” MadeThreeSpaceTechnologyFieldsChangedCostDecadesAccessErasCapabilityApolloReducingStrideReliability Author:Elon Musk
“Money is indispensable to a long-circuit heavy load energy system. It must be used when a sufficient surplus is being produced to allow a margin for exchange, and cost of transport, over a considerable distance. Money represents a storage battery when idle, and a generalized mode of the conversion of energy when it is in motion, with a function of equating time and space.” LongUsedEnergySpaceCostFunctionDistanceHeavyConversionSufficientLoadIdleIndispensableTime And SpaceMarginsTransportCircuitsBatteriesSurplusStorageHeavy Loads Book:God of the Machine Source: God of the Machine
“A man is a fabulous nuisance in space right now. He's not worth all the cost of putting him up there and keeping him comfortable and working.” MenSpaceRight NowCostComfortableFabulousNuisance Author:James Van Allen
“Only a large-volume market like space travel can attack the barrier of high costs.” SpaceCostBarriersVolumeSpace Travel Author:Buzz Aldrin
“To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order of magnitude and increase safety by a factor of 100 as compared to every launch system used since the first manned space flight. I think airborne launch will be a significant part of the safety solution.” ThinkingNeedsFirstsUsedOrderSpaceCostSolutionsIncreaseSafetyAccessSignificantFactorsFlightBreakthroughMagnitudeOrbitAirborneSpace Flight Author:Burt Rutan
“I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.” SpaceResultsQualityGreaterCostExplorationQuantitySpace ExplorationSpace TravelFerventQuantity And Quality Author:James Van Allen
“I think a colony in space will take much longer than sci fiction writers think. It costs $10,000 to put a pound of anything into near earth orbit. That is your weight in gold. It costs about $100,000 a pound to put you on the moon. And it costs $1,000,000 a pound to put you on Mars.” ThinkingEarthSpaceFictionCostMoonGoldWeightPoundsSci FiMarsColonyFiction WritersOrbit Author:Michio Kaku
“We should explore new ways to drive down the cost of space travel. instead of costly booster rockets, maybe we should think of laser/microwave driven rockets, or space elevators. Until then, the cost of space exploration will limit our ability to explore the universe.” ThinkingWayShouldUniverseAbilitySpaceCostLimitsDrivenExplorationNew WaysRocketsSpace ExplorationElevatorsSpace TravelLasersMicrowaves Author:Michio Kaku
“Our space programme has overcome many hurdles. At the same time it is one of the most cost effective programmes. This should make us proud.” ShouldMotivationSpaceProudCostOvercomingIndiaProgrammesHurdle Author:Narendra Modi
“I think a current understanding about urban behavior tells us that it's important that people get out and be able to get away from the concrete jungles and the dense environment where they live for their own mental well-being. If they don't do this, the costs in human loss and human sickness will be far greater than what we would be expending for these kinds of releases and open spaces.” PeopleIfsThinkingHumansWellsKindImportantWould BeAbleUnderstandingLossSpaceEnvironmentGreaterCostBehaviorCurrentsReleaseWell BeingSicknessGet AwayConcreteUrbanJungleDenseOpen SpacesConcrete Jungle Author:Barry Goldwater
“I want the kind of readers who remain children at any cost. I can tell them at a glance: loyalty to that first enchantment guards better than any cosmetic; than any diet, against the insults of age. But alas for such readers, who would huddle safe and sound in the asylum of their credulous enchantment as if in the womb-our enervating century offends them by its chaos, its fidgets of light and space, the host of its excuses for dividing , for rending oneself from others and from oneself.” IfsWantFirstsKindChildrenI CanLightAgeSoundSpaceCenturyReaderCostSafeChaosOneselfExcuseLoyaltyDietsInsultHostGlancesAlasWombCosmeticsAsylumsEnchantmentDividingSafe And Sound Author:Jean Cocteau
“Treatment is not now available for almost half of those who would benefit from it. Yet we are willing to build more and more jails in which to isolate drug users even though at one-seventh the cost of building and maintaining jail space and pursuing, detaining, and prosecuting the drug user, we could subsidize commensurately effective medical care and psychological treatment.” CareSpaceHalfBuildingWillingCostDrugBenefitsAvailableMedicalPsychologicalTreatmentJailUsersMaintainingMedical CareProsecutingDetaining Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.
“I would never go to a studio. I need my space, you know what I mean? I need to be able to chain smoke and pace about, cry and like... spit. Just make noise, make a huge mess. I also feel like if I was concerned for the cost of the studio - like, 'this is costing 40 dollars an hour' - I wouldn't be able to work.” IfsKnowsNeedsFeelsMeanAbleHoursSpaceCryHugeCostConcernedDollarsStudiosNoiseChainsMessSmokePaceSpitMy Space Author:Grimes
“Once we had a rail station in Montgomery that connected to Columbus and went all the way up to Virginia, slave traders could transport thousands of slaves at a fraction of the cost than they could transport by boat, and certainly by foot. And that's how Montgomery became such an active slave-trading space.” WaySpaceFeetCostSlaveConnectedActiveBoatStationsTradingVirginiaTransportFractionsRailColumbusTradersMontgomerySlave Trade Author:Bryan Stevenson
“Especially in urban areas, nobody cares so much [about castes], because you are forced to live in the same buildings. There is so, so little space. You can't be thinking about whether you are living in a street that has only Brahmins, or in a building that has been touched only by Muslims or Christians. You just live there, because that's the only place that you can find. So such distinctions just crumble away. There are people who maintain them, at all costs. But for the most part, it doesn't matter.” PeopleThinkingLittlesHas BeensMatterCareChristianSpaceStreetsBuildingCostAreasDistinctionTouchedUrbanJust LiveCastesNobody CaresUrban AreasBrahmins Author:Anita Rau Badami
“I often get the question from people, "well how can you sell luxury at that price?" What I'm explaining to everyone is I'm still paying the same factory cost as I paid when they were $800. I pay the same as my competitors who are in the luxury space pay, I just don't mark them up as much because I haven't put them in a wholesale channel. I don't have to put that extra margin on them.” PeopleWellsStillsSpacePayHavensCostMarkPaidSellsLuxuryExtrasFactoriesCompetitorsExplainingMarginsWholesale Author:Tamara Mellon
“If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.” IfsCan DoSpaceCostGreat ThingsTransportation Author:Elon Musk
“Louise, I would gladly fire the past for you, go and not look back. I have been reckless before, never counting the cost, oblivious to the cost. Now, I've done the sums ahead. I know what it will mean to redeem myself from the accumulations of a lifetime. I know and I don't care. You set before me a space uncluttered by association. It might be a void or it might be a release. Certainly I want to take the risk. I want to take the risk because the life I have stored up is going mouldy.” KnowsWantLooksMeanHas BeensDoneMightCarePastSpaceFireRiskCostLifetimeDon't CareReleaseI Don't CareAssociationVoidRecklessCountingAccumulationObliviousCounting The Cost Author:Jeanette Winterson