Elon Musk Quotes
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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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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'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.
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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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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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When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
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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 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 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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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 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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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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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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I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.
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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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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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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 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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I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
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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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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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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.