Elon Musk Quotes
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I don’t have an issue with serving in the military per se, but serving in the South African army suppressing black people just didn’t seem like a really good way to spend time.
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If you wanted to be close to the cutting edge, particularly in technology, you came to North America.
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If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.
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I've been to Disneyland, like, 10 times. I'm getting really tired of Disneyland.
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Rocket engineering is not like ditch digging. With ditch digging you can get 100 people and dig a ditch, and you will dig it a hundred times as faster if you get 100 people versus one. With rockets, you have to solve the problem of a particular level of difficulty; one person who can solve the problem is worth an infinite number of people who can’t.
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Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.
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Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.
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If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.
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The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.
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This is the chance to fulfill a dream.
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People should be travelling to Mars and doing it in our lifetime.
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If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.
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There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.
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The U.S. automotive industry has been selling cars the same way for over 100 years, and there are many laws in place to govern exactly how that is to be accomplished.
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... I plan to travel to Mars and make it my home.
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I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them.
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I think it is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.
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The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.
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You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.
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I want to be able to make sure that we have enough capital to survive at least three consecutive failures. If you want to make a small fortune in the launch vehicle business, start with a large one.
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Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.
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I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least.
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Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.
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Since our primary competitors in space launch are national governments, the enforceability of patents is questionable.