Shervin Pishevar Quotes

The hyperloop will be a digital network. That's why we say we look at transportation as a new form of broadband.

With Hyperloop One, we are on the brink of the first great breakthrough in transportation technology of the 21st century, eliminating the barriers of time and distance and unlocking vast economic opportunities.

We also wanted to change the story - change the approach to the 21st century on energy, on education, on transportation, on infrastructure, generally, and it laid the groundwork for that. And one of the reasons I'm doing this trip is not only to say what we did worked, but to say we should do more of this.

Railroads ... are positively the greatest blessing that the ages have wrought out for us. They give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel.

Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be possible, will bring nothing but good into the world; that it shall abridge distance, make all parts of the globe accessible, bring men into closer relation with each other, advance civilization, and hasten the promised era in which there shall be nothing but peace and goodwill among all men.

In Dubai, we spend too much of our lives in cars; we shouldn't be wasting it in something boring, but rather enjoy every minute in something we love and appreciate.

The Hyperloop One Global Challenge started as a call to action for innovators, engineers, trailblazers, and dreamers around the world who shared our vision of creating a new mode of transportation. The Global Challenge became a movement of thousands of people from more than 100 countries over six continents.

We are so fortunate that our new and existing investors share our vision of making Hyperloop the world's first new mode of transportation in over a century. We initially targeted $50 million and ended up raising $85 million instead.

This is the beginning, and the dawn of a new era of transportation.

For the first time in over 100 years, a new mode of transportation has been introduced. Hyperloop is real, and it's here now.

Europe embraces new ideas in transportation like no other region in the world and is uniquely positioned to take the next great leap in transportation with Hyperloop One.

At the end of the day, I live in Silicon Valley and L.A., and for selfish reasons, I'd love to have Los Angeles and San Francisco connected with the Hyperloop.

It makes no sense to make people drive cars.

Hyperloop is the ultimate pinnacle of that idea of, 'Can we actually shrink space and time?'

For me, green is more about cycling than recycling.

I would think the correlation between an era of increased globalization and an increased desire to participate in an entrepreneurial endeavor is not a coincidence. When interconnectedness is at a peak due to technological advances, the ability to spawn something new is slightly easier.

Urban mobility is a massive global challenge. The world needs people to use multiple forms of transport - a mix of biking, walking, and other low-energy forms of transportation.

Technology is rapidly changing our transportation systems, and if we craft smart regulations, these changes can be for the better.

I love swing, jazz, blues, standards. I love the American songbook, Gershwin, Berlin. It's all that. So I'm born in the wrong era and I just don't fit into the 21st century at all.

You can do pretty much anything you want in Dubai. In terms of getting around, everywhere's within half an hour in the car.

What does everyone in America own? A car. What is the quickest way to reduce our dependence on oil? Embrace hybrid technology.

Everything that's transported over ground, whether it's people or parcels, will be impacted by autonomous vehicle technology.

There isn't enough renewable fuel in the world to crack our growing addiction to foreign oil. We need to decrease miles driven and increase engine efficiency.

How people move around their city is a big deal. It affects productivity, security, health, and global warming, among other things.

We're very focused on building the hyperloop. And the hyperloop is exactly something we've described as an actual tube with levitation propulsion and a vacuum that essentially vents around sky inside the tube flying at 200,000 feet. That, to us, is the hyperloop, and we're the only company building that.