Elon Musk Quotes
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The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.
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I've actually not read any books on time management.
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I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.
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One was the Internet, one was clean energy and one was space.
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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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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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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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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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Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
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What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.
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Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.
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Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
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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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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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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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People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
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I could either watch it happen, or be part of it.
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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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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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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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I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.
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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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Tesla is becoming a real car company.