It's in my nature that when people say something is impossible I like to prove them wrong. — Boyan Slat Impossible Copy Share Image
I would never be able to work on a photo-sharing app or 'Internet startup XYZ.' — Boyan Slat App Copy Share Image
Planning is extremely important, but at some point you have to go out and do it. — Boyan Slat Go Copy Share Image
We think the fastest way to clean the ocean is to learn by doing. — Boyan Slat Doing Copy Share Image
I really hate looking back. think it's useless. The only way is forward. — Boyan Slat Forward Copy Share Image
I do enjoy being at the ocean, like most people, but not so much being on the ocean. — Boyan Slat Being Copy Share Image
When I started there was this consensus that you could never clean this up, that the problem is way too big, the… — Boyan Slat Big Copy Share Image
We need to close the tap, which means preventing more plastic from reaching the ocean in the first place. — Boyan Slat Close Copy Share Image
You need a group of people who will continually realize that you will run into problems, and for each you will have… — Boyan Slat Need Copy Share Image
It's a very strange experience to be four or five days from the closest point of land, and you see more plastic… — Boyan Slat Days Copy Share Image
There will always be people saying things can't be done. And history shows that time and time again things 'couldn't be done'… — Boyan Slat Done Copy Share Image
The way the clean-up system works is that we let the plastic come to us, using the ocean currents in our advantage. — Boyan Slat Come Copy Share Image
When I was 16 years old, I went scuba diving in Greece and saw more plastic bags than fish. I wondered why… — Boyan Slat Diving Copy Share Image
The way you advance a technological society is to try things - to be controversial and contrarian in your thinking in order… — Boyan Slat Advance Copy Share Image
I'm a firm believer of the venture capitalist-style approach to solving problems. Rather than doing many small things that you hope add… — Boyan Slat High risk Copy Share Image
We use a curtain, so we don't use a net, so there's nothing sea life can get entangled with. And also, the… — Boyan Slat Average Copy Share Image
The reason why the Wright brothers were successful wasn't because they had the most resources, but because they understood how invention works.… — Boyan Slat Go Copy Share Image
There are already dozens of organizations working on trying to prevent plastic from going into the ocean, through advocacy, education, awareness, all… — Boyan Slat Awareness Copy Share Image
This plastic doesn't go away by itself, and to just let hundreds of thousands of tons of plastic be out there to… — Boyan Slat Dangerous Copy Share Image
I think very often problems are so big, people approach problems from the bottom up: 'If only I do this little bit,… — Boyan Slat People Copy Share Image
We absolutely need to clean up the plastic that's already in the ocean. It won't go away by itself. But we do… — Boyan Slat First place Copy Share Image
It was a long journey, but it was also a relief to see that first plastic being caught. — Boyan Slat Being Copy Share Image
For society to progress, we should not only move forward but also clean up after ourselves. — Boyan Slat Clean Copy Share Image
Our main funders... a lot of them are entrepreneurs and technologists themselves as well and familiar with iterative development processes. — Boyan Slat Business Copy Share Image
It will be very hard to convince everyone in the world to handle their plastics responsibly, but what we humans are very… — Boyan Slat Good Copy Share Image
The main principle behind the cleanup system is to have a difference in speed between the system and the plastic so that… — Boyan Slat Behind Copy Share Image
Really, the ocean itself - that's really the thing that we're up against, the most destructive environment on the planet. — Boyan Slat Destructive Copy Share Image
The winning concept is the slow-down approach, in which we use a parachute anchor to slow down the system as much as… — Boyan Slat Approach Copy Share Image
The legacy, the waste, is mostly in international waters that are sort of in no man's land and thus considered to be… — Boyan Slat Land Copy Share Image
Taking care of the world's ocean garbage problem is one of the largest environmental challenges mankind faces today. — Boyan Slat Challenges Copy Share Image
Coastlines are very effective ways of catching plastic. But the thing is, in those vast ocean garbage patches, there's simply no coastlines… — Boyan Slat Garbage Copy Share Image
I've gone on a research expedition in the Atlantic Ocean before. I was sick for the entire week after that. — Boyan Slat Adventure Copy Share Image
Can we build a system which is able to survive on the ocean for years? That is the key question we are… — Boyan Slat Key Copy Share Image
Everyone said to me: 'Oh there's nothing you can do about plastic once it gets into the oceans,' and I wondered whether… — Boyan Slat About Copy Share Image
We started solely concentrating on cleaning up the Garbage Patch because we felt it was the most neglected part of the spectrum… — Boyan Slat Cleaning Copy Share Image
