Elon Musk Quotes
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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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Great companies are built on great products.
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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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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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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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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 don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.
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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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I’m nauseatingly pro-American. It is where great things are possible.
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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 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'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool.
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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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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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I think the rocket business is quite cyclic. There are a great many peaks and troughs.
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Well, I have tried to learn as much as possible from prior attempts.
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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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Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.
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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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Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.
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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 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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It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere.
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Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry.