Elon Musk Quotes
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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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Well, I have tried to learn as much as possible from prior attempts.
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I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.
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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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I think that is a mistake and results in cloudy judgment on important technical issues. They can't tell if something is really good or not, so they just do what everyone else does, assuming it to be the safe bet.
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In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.
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Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.
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I think the rocket business is quite cyclic. There are a great many peaks and troughs.
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You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.
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Everything works in PowerPoint; but if you have the physical item or some demonstration software, that's much more convincing to people than a PowerPoint presentation or a business plan.
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Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.
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If you don't have sustainable energy, you have unsustainable energy. The fundamental value of a company like Tesla is the degree to which it accelerates the advent of sustainable energy faster than it would otherwise occur.
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To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games - nothing like saving the world.
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I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
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The goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we're going to take a step back and think about what's most likely to achieve that goal.
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I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.
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Sooner or later, we must expand life beyond our little blue mud ball-or go extinct.
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If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along. Anything that breaks it at any point stops that growth.
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There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.
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There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.
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A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.
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When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.