Boyan Slat

We're driving the largest cleanup in history.

— Boyan Slat

The North Sea can be a pretty violent place.

— Boyan Slat

I am quite obsessive by nature.

— Boyan Slat

Musk is very inspiring to me.

— Boyan Slat

I've always been obsessed with technology.

— Boyan Slat

I am not a man of the sea.

— Boyan Slat

Plastic doesn't have to be ocean plastic pollution.

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You solve a problem then get a new one in return.

— Boyan Slat

We think the fastest way to clean the ocean is to learn by doing.

— Boyan Slat

I really hate looking back. think it's useless. The only way is forward.

— Boyan Slat

I think, in reality, opinions don't matter that much.

— Boyan Slat

I would never be able to work on a photo-sharing app or 'Internet startup XYZ.'

— Boyan Slat

Planning is extremely important, but at some point you have to go out and do it.

— Boyan Slat

I tell my team you have to aim for success, but assume failure.

— Boyan Slat

For society to progress, we should not only move forward but also clean up after ourselves.

— Boyan Slat

It was a long journey, but it was also a relief to see that first plastic being caught.

— Boyan Slat

Really, the ocean itself - that's really the thing that we're up against, the most destructive environment on the planet.

— Boyan Slat

The winning concept is the slow-down approach, in which we use a parachute anchor to slow down the system as much as…

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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

Taking care of the world's ocean garbage problem is one of the largest environmental challenges mankind faces today.

— Boyan Slat

It will be very hard to convince everyone in the world to handle their plastics responsibly, but what we humans are very…

— Boyan Slat

The main principle behind the cleanup system is to have a difference in speed between the system and the plastic so that…

— Boyan Slat

Our main funders... a lot of them are entrepreneurs and technologists themselves as well and familiar with iterative development processes.

— Boyan Slat

The way you advance a technological society is to try things - to be controversial and contrarian in your thinking in order…

— Boyan Slat

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

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

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

Whenever you start working on something, you have to go about it with the underlying assumption that this puzzle has a solution,…

— Boyan Slat

I think very often problems are so big, people approach problems from the bottom up: 'If only I do this little bit,…

— Boyan Slat

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

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

There are already dozens of organizations working on trying to prevent plastic from going into the ocean, through advocacy, education, awareness, all…

— Boyan Slat

To catch the plastic, act like the plastic.

— Boyan Slat

It's important to stay humble.

— Boyan Slat

I get seasick quite badly.

— Boyan Slat

These garbage patches won't go away by themselves.

— Boyan Slat

We could truly make our oceans clean again.

— Boyan Slat

I do enjoy being at the ocean, like most people, but not so much being on the ocean.

— Boyan Slat

It's never really fun to be in the public spotlight.

— Boyan Slat

Rivers are the arteries that carry the trash from land to sea.

— Boyan Slat