Building and launching rockets has been a lifelong hobby…

“Building and launching rockets has been a lifelong hobby that my son and I share. We regularly travel to Nevada's Black Rock Desert to launch rockets.”

Steve Jurvetson

About This Quote

This interpretation was drafted with AI assistance. It is one reading of the quote, not the author's own explanation.

Rocket building is a shared passion that fuels family bonding and adventure.

In simple terms: Rocket hobby bonds family.

Key Takeaway

Pursue shared passions.

Themes

family innovation adventure

Mood

enthusiastic inspired

Type

personal motivational

When to use this quote

family trips
DIY projects
science outreach

Key Concepts

engineering STEM education

Questions to Reflect On

How do you ensure safety?
What lessons can kids learn from rockets?

A Different Perspective

Safety risks can be high.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

Desert Hobby Rockets Son Space Travel

More by Steve Jurvetson

The beauty of compounding iterative algorithms - evolution, fractals, organic growth, art - derives from their irreducibility.

Steve Jurvetson

Flourishing is everyone's birthright. I'm trying to break this hold that being smiley and cheery has on what people think the good life is.

Steve Jurvetson

We believe strongly that all meaningful change comes from entrepreneurs.

Steve Jurvetson

Biotech 1.0 is slow, like a lab science, and Version 2.0 is more like computational sciences.

Steve Jurvetson

Rockets often spiral out of control if you put too much propellant in them.

Steve Jurvetson

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…

Steve Jurvetson

Being slick is not the right answer.

Steve Jurvetson

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

Steve Jurvetson

History has proven time and again that downturns are the best time to invest in new start-ups. You get good deals and find a…

Steve Jurvetson

I can't invest in areas of comfort.

Steve Jurvetson

Venture capital is a dynamic and people-driven business.

Steve Jurvetson

I do think there are more and more entrepreneurs all the time that think big. Those are the people we should be finding and…

Steve Jurvetson

We definitely stand behind Theranos in the sense of, we are an investor, and we want them to succeed.

Steve Jurvetson

Machine learning allows us to build software solutions that exceed human understanding and shows us how AI can innervate every industry.

Steve Jurvetson

The deep learning techniques, while relatively easy to learn, are quite foreign to traditional engineering modalities. It takes a different mindset and a relaxation…

Steve Jurvetson

Explore all 92 Steve Jurvetson quotes

More Building quotes

You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition…

Shimon Peres

Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.

Mortimer Zuckerman

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for…

Thomas Jefferson

Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the…

David Krieger

I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get…

Jim Cummings

Absolutely, you can improve and become better at toughness. It's a talent, but it can be acquired, too. I think of it like building…

Jim Harbaugh

T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people…

Mark Dever

I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now.

Liam Neeson

Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.

Anonymous

Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be

Curtis W. Fentress

As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So…

Edward Witten