Elon Musk Quotes
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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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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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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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Great companies are built on great products.
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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 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 nauseatingly pro-American. It is where great things are possible.
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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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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'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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People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
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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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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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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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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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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.