Elon Musk Quotes
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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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I’m nauseatingly pro-American. It is where great things are possible.
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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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Even if there's a zombie apocalypse, you'll still be able to travel using the Tesla Supercharging system.
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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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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 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 feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.
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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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If nothing else, we are committed to failing in a new way.
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You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.
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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'm trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.
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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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We could figure out ways with small aerospace companies to do a low-cost spacecraft and lander. But we could not find a way to do a low-cost launcher, unless we went to the Russians.
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Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.
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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 had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.
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Sooner or later, we must expand life beyond our little blue mud ball-or go extinct.
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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 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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Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.
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An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.
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The factory is the machine that builds the machine.