Elon Musk Quotes
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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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Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.
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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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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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If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive.
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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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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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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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My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.
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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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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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Life is too short for long-term grudges.
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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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If nothing else, we are committed to failing in a new way.
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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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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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Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.
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You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.
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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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I'm trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.
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As life’s agents, it’s on our shoulders.
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I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.