Apollo Program

“The person is the program. Like, don't forget that Edward Hall built the Minuteman, and Schriever was the Air Force General that oversaw our ICBMs, and that we call it the Apollo program, but it was actually Gene Krantz's program, and the primacy of those peop…”

“We're on track right now to spend an Apollo program every 10 months in AI.”

“The engineering project that we collectively as a country, as a society, as a world are undergoing right now, right? It's like projects like the New Deal, like pale in comparison, you know, the Apollo program pale in comparison to what we're doing right now.”

“These projects working or not come down to a handful of really exceptional individuals being present, taking ownership and leading the way.”

“Intel in like, I think, 68, 69, 96% of Intel sales were to the Apollo program and to the DoD.”

“For the Polaris Dawn mission, which is a private mission, so funded by Jared Jared Isaacman, and he's awesome guy, and there, this will be the first time the first private, the first, first commercial spacewalk and it'll be at the highest altitude since Apollo…”

“OpenAI claimed that their mission was to build safe and beneficial AGI, and I thought that this would mean that they would prioritize, you know, putting safety first. But over time, it started to really feel like the decisions being made by leadership were mor…”