Elon Musk Quotes
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I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.
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Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you'll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it's twice the efficiency of a Prius.
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The rumours of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated.
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I've actually not read any books on time management.
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It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it's been possible, and that window could be open for a long time - hopefully it is - or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.
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One was the Internet, one was clean energy and one was space.
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I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.
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My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars - this is very important - so you don't have to carry the return fuel when you go there.
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The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it's going to become multiplanetary, or it's going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there's going to be an extinction event.
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Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.
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Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
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We could figure out ways with small aerospace companies to do a low-cost spacecraft and lander. But we could not find a way to do a low-cost launcher, unless we went to the Russians.
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People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.
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If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.
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There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.
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People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
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Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
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From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. A little light just went on after four and a half billion years. How often does that happen? Maybe it is quite rare.
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The heroes of the books I read, The Lord of the Rings and the Foundation series, always felt a duty to save the world.
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Even if there's a zombie apocalypse, you'll still be able to travel using the Tesla Supercharging system.
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So even if a fire develops, it can't really attack the particularly vulnerable locations like the pneumatic system or the avionics or the engine bay. We want to be in the situation that even if a fire develops, the rocket just keeps going.
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I could either watch it happen, or be part of it.
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The long term ultimate objective – the holy grail – is we would like to help make life multi-planetary.
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Well, I have tried to learn as much as possible from prior attempts.