Land Quote by Boyan Slat

Musk is very inspiring to me.

— Boyan Slat

I think humanity can do more than one thing at the same time.

— Boyan Slat

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

— Boyan Slat

For 60 years man has been putting plastic into the ocean. And from that day onward we're also taking it back out again.

— Boyan Slat

We started solely concentrating on cleaning up the Garbage Patch because we felt it was the most neglected part of the spectrum of solutions.

— 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 system moves…

— Boyan Slat

When ideas are confronted with reality, there will always be surprises.

— Boyan Slat

When I started there was this consensus that you could never clean this up, that the problem is way too big, the ocean is…

— Boyan Slat

I think people overestimate the risk of high-risk projects.

— Boyan Slat

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

— Boyan Slat

It's important to stay humble.

— Boyan Slat

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

— Boyan Slat