Elon Musk Quotes
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A great deal of bargaining power with suppliers. We are never locked in to anyone.
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SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.
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My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.
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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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Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their 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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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 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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The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.
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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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I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.
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Falcon One is going to be the lowest cost per flight to orbit of any production rocket.
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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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I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.
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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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As life’s agents, it’s on our shoulders.
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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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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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Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.
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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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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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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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If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive.
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Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.