Elon Musk Quotes.
I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.
It’s important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it’s been possible, and that window could be open for a long time – hopefully it is – or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.
On one of the SpaceX flights, we had a secret payload: a wheel of cheese. We flew to orbit and brought it back, so it was the world’s first ‘space cheese.’ It was, in part, a tribute to Monty Python.
People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.
I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.
If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.
It is true that SpaceX is partially a government contractor, but it would be unfair to say that SpaceX is entirely a government contractor.
I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.
It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will.
A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It’s a gasoline car with slightly better mileage.
If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it’s always expensive.
I think there should be regulations on social media to the degree that it negatively affects the public good.
The U.S. automotive industry has been selling cars the same way for over 100 years, and there are many laws in place to govern exactly how that is to be accomplished.
If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.
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.
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.
