Elon Musk Quotes
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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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Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.
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I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.
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When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
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A utility can handle up to 20% of production from solar and that helps the grid because it produces electricity when needed. Solar power peaks in the middle of the day and that's also when air conditioning is running and businesses are operating, so power production matches usage.
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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 like to be involved in things that change the world. The Internet did, and space will probably be more responsible for changing the world than anything else. If humanity can expand beyond the Earth, obviously that's where the future is.
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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 was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.
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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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'Guardian is the most insufferable newspaper on planet Earth.'
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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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SpaceX's got 5,000 people. I get a lot of attention, but they are really doing the work.
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Tuition costs are outrageous. Fortunately, they gave me a scholarship…so I only had to cover living expenses, books, etc., by working.
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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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The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.
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I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.
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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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Which means we’re cheaper than the Chinese, cheaper than the Russians or anywhere else – and we’re doing it in the United States with American labour costs.
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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.
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It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don't think it's possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.
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If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.
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The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we'd never have had the light bulb.
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If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.