Elon Musk Quotes
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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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Sooner or later, we must expand life beyond our little blue mud ball-or go extinct.
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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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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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A great deal of bargaining power with suppliers. We are never locked in to anyone.
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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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There’s a graveyard of prior attempts, a big graveyard. There’s probably some freshly dug graves just waiting to be filled. Our aspiration is to avoid that destination.
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I like the word 'autopilot' more than I like the word 'self-driving.' 'Self-driving' sounds like it's going to do something you don't want it to do. 'Autopilot' is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.
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Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.
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The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.
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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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As life’s agents, it’s on our shoulders.
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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 you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive.
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Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.
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Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.
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I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.
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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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SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people.
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The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad.
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Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner, but you need the production of energy in a sustainable manner.
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I didn’t really expect to make any money. If I could make enough to cover the rent and buy some food that would be fine. As it turns out, it turned out to be quite valuable in the end.
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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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So we originally expected to make about 35 gigawatt hours at the cell level and about 50 gigawatt hours at the module or pack level. Now we are expecting to do about 150 gigawatt hours in the same volumetric space as the original design.