Elon Musk Quotes
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Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
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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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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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It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
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In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.
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Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
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I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.
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I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing of just using other people's money. I don't think that's right. I'm not going to ask other people to invest in something if I'm not prepared to do so myself.
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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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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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I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.
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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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The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.
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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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If we can build something that is capable of taking people and equipment to Mars, such that it can service a transportation infrastructure for humanity becoming a multi- planet species - which I think is a very, very important objective - then I would consider the mission of SpaceX successful, at that point.
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I've actually not read any books on time management.
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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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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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You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.
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I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool.
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My approach is simply to seek out very talented people, ensure that the environment at SpaceX is as motivating & enjoyable as possible and establish clear & measurable objectives.
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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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I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google.
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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.