Elon Musk Quotes
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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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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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SpaceX's got 5,000 people. I get a lot of attention, but they are really doing the work.
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I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.
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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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Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.
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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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Only by breaking through to new paradigms of space travel will more than a handful of us ever get to Mars and make it a potentially livable place.
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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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Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be several times what it is for the car business.
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In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.
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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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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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Falcon One is going to be the lowest cost per flight to orbit of any production rocket.
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I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries.
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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.