Elon Musk
I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.Collection: Space
With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. You know all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon? Doesn't work out.Collection: Work
SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.Collection: Government
You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.Collection: Science
Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.Collection: Science
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.Collection: Business
Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you'll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it's twice the efficiency of a Prius.Collection: Car
In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.Collection: Death
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.Collection: Car
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.Collection: Car
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.Collection: Failure
Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.Collection: Sports
If you look at space companies, they've failed either because they've had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.Collection: Space
It is theoretically possible to warp spacetime itself, so you're not actually moving faster than the speed of light, but it's actually space that's moving.Collection: Space
What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.Collection: Space
I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It's a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that's what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.Collection: Future
The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable.Collection: History
I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.Collection: Best
If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way. And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations.Collection: Technology
SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people.Collection: Technology
Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.Collection: Car
Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.Collection: Car
I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool.Collection: Car
My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.Collection: Car
I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company.Collection: Business
America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.Collection: Patriotism
Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.Collection: Work
The problem with car dealerships is you've already decided what you want to buy before you even go there, and you're really just going there to talk through some annoying negotiation.Collection: Car
Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business - I'd say, number one is have a high pain threshold.Collection: Business
It's very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.Collection: Work
I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I've got kids and responsibilities, so I can't be my own test pilot. That wouldn't be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it's a sensible thing to do.Collection: Cool
To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games - nothing like saving the world.Collection: Money
So we originally expected to make about 35 gigawatt hours at the cell level and about 50 gigawatt hours at the module or pack level. Now we are expecting to do about 150 gigawatt hours in the same volumetric space as the original design.Collection: Space
I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.Collection: Good
My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars - this is very important - so you don't have to carry the return fuel when you go there.Collection: Technology
Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.Collection: Intelligence
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.Collection: History
In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.Collection: Politics
Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.Collection: Sports
If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.Collection: Age
Life is too short for long-term grudges.Collection: Life
Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.Collection: Change
We could definitely make a flying car - but that's not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that's super safe and quiet? Because if it's a howler, you're going to make people very unhappy.Collection: Car
I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric.Collection: Car
Tesla is becoming a real car company.Collection: Car
If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation.Collection: Chance
I like the word 'autopilot' more than I like the word 'self-driving.' 'Self-driving' sounds like it's going to do something you don't want it to do. 'Autopilot' is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.Collection: Car
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.Collection: Car
If I'm not in love, if I'm not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.Collection: Love