Elon Musk Quotes
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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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I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.
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Tesla is becoming a real car company.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.
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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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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 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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I think the rocket business is quite cyclic. There are a great many peaks and troughs.
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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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Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.
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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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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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Sooner or later, we must expand life beyond our little blue mud ball-or go extinct.
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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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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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Life is too short for long-term grudges.
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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.