Shervin Pishevar Quotes

When you hear the sound of the Hyperloop One, you hear the sound of the future.

Hyperloop One is the American Dream, and it's fast becoming an American reality.

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

In the U.S. and abroad, there's incredible positivity towards Hyperloop. People are excited about it, and it's really begun to capture people's imaginations.

Hyperloop One wants to make the world one, wants to make the world smaller.

What we like to say is that the vision for Uber is the cross between lifestyle and logistics.

The U.A.E. has a progressive vision for transforming its economy, and Hyperloop One plays right into that by increasing access to the region and beyond.

Hyperloop One will move people and things faster than at any other time in the world.

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.

There has to be essentially a completely new regulatory framework for Hyperloop because it is not high-speed rail. It's not rail.

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.

When I started to put my eye on electronic transportation is when I fell in love with it.

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.

By 2020, cargo loops should be working. By 2022, we should have people transport working.

We've proven that our technology works and that Hyperloop One is the only company in the world that has built an operational Hyperloop system. As we move towards the commercialization of our technology, we'll continue to work with governments and embrace public-private partnerships to reimagine transportation as we know it.

What about a hoverboard?" "It's waiting on the roof, of course." Dr. Cable snorted. "What is it about you miscreants and those things?

If we'd had government on [today's] scale in the 1840s, the stagecoaches would have hired lobbyists to get a bill passed that railroads could not travel faster than a horse because it would be an unfair competitive advantage.

In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as well as fly over it.

We like to think of Uber as the cross between lifestyle and logistics, where lifestyle is what you want and logistics is how you get it there.

We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?"

Jack Campbell's dazzling new series is military science fiction at its best. Not only does he tell a yarn of great adventure and action, but he also develops the characters with satisfying depth. I thoroughly enjoyed this rip-roaring read, and I can hardly wait for the next book.

To me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry.

Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas.