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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 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.
Elon Musk
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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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Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
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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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There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.
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My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.
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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.
Elon Musk
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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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When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
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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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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 do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple's product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium.
Elon Musk
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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 feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.
Elon Musk -
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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I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.
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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 would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
Elon Musk
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'Guardian is the most insufferable newspaper on planet Earth.'
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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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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.
Elon Musk -
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.
Elon Musk