Elon Musk Quotes
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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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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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In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.
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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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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 we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.
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Sooner or later, we must expand life beyond our little blue mud ball-or go extinct.
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A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.
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My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.
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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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The factory is the machine that builds the machine.
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If nothing else, we are committed to failing in a new way.
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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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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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I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.
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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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The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.
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I usually describe myself as an engineer; that's basically what I've been doing since I was a kid.
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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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You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.
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A great deal of bargaining power with suppliers. We are never locked in to anyone.
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The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.
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If we can build something that is capable of taking people and equipment to Mars, such that it can service a transportation infrastructure for humanity becoming a multi- planet species - which I think is a very, very important objective - then I would consider the mission of SpaceX successful, at that point.