Elon Musk Quotes
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Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.
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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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Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
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I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.
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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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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 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 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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The long term ultimate objective – the holy grail – is we would like to help make life multi-planetary.
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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 rumours of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated.
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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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We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.
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I've actually not read any books on time management.
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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 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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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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Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
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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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Life is too short for long-term grudges.
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I’m nauseatingly pro-American. It is where great things are possible.
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What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn't there, we'd be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.
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I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.
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Even if there's a zombie apocalypse, you'll still be able to travel using the Tesla Supercharging system.