Elon Musk Quotes
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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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I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.
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You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.
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As life’s agents, it’s on our shoulders.
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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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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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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.
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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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The factory is the machine that builds the machine.
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It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
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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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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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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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Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.
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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 think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.
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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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Great companies are built on great products.
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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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If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.
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SpaceX's got 5,000 people. I get a lot of attention, but they are really doing the work.
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If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they've done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.
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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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There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.