Elon Musk Quotes
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Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.
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Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.
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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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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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A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage.
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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.
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The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.
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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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Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
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My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.
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If we can be one of the companies that makes it possible for humans to become a multi-planetary species, that would be the Holy Grail. It sounds a bit crazy but it's going to happen, and only if people build the means to do so. We're making progress toward a greater philosophical goal while building a sound business.
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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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Life is too short for long-term grudges.
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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 think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don't believe in climate change - they think oil will last forever.
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Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.
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SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.
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I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.
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It doesn’t do a great deal to advance the goal of humanity. I would pay $20 million not to spend six months in Russia. And besides this, my interest is how do we enable many other people to go to space, not necessarily me, personally.
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I'm trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.
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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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Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.
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If nothing else, we are committed to failing in a new way.
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As life’s agents, it’s on our shoulders.