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I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.Collection: Elon
I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.Collection: Elon
I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.Collection: Elon
The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.Collection: Elon
I've been to Disneyland, like, 10 times. I'm getting really tired of Disneyland.Collection: Elon
I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least.Collection: Elon
I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.Collection: Elon
If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along. Anything that breaks it at any point stops that growth.Collection: Elon
With DNA, you have to be able to tell which genes are turned on or off. Current DNA sequencing cannot do that. The next generation of DNA sequencing needs to be able to do this. If somebody invents this, then we can start to very precisely identify cures for diseases.Collection: Elon
I usually describe myself as an engineer; that's basically what I've been doing since I was a kid.Collection: Elon
Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.Collection: Elon
For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it's been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I'd just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.Collection: Elon
It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere.Collection: Elon
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.Collection: Elon
Even if producing CO2 was good for the environment, given that we're going to run out of hydrocarbons, we need to find some sustainable means of operating.Collection: Elon
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.Collection: Elon
Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.Collection: Elon
Generally, the view that I've had on Twitter is if you're on Twitter, you're in, like, the meme - you're in meme war land. If you're on Twitter, you're in the arena. And so, essentially, if you attack me, it is therefore OK for me to attack back.Collection: Elon
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.Collection: Elon
A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery.Collection: Elon
The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.Collection: Elon
It's obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient way to use cellulose is to burn it in a co-generation power plant. That will yield the most energy and that is something you can do today.Collection: Elon
I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.Collection: Elon
In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business.Collection: Elon
If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.Collection: Elon
I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.Collection: Elon
The rumours of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated.Collection: Elon
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.Collection: Elon
I wish we could be private with Tesla. It actually makes us less efficient to be a public company.Collection: Elon
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.Collection: Elon
The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries.Collection: Elon
Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It's hard to break into a network once it's formed.Collection: Elon
There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.Collection: Elon
I have made the mistaken assumption - and I will attempt to be better at this - of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.Collection: Elon
I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.Collection: Elon
You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.Collection: Elon
We are the first species capable of self-annihilation.Collection: Elon
The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.Collection: Elon
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.Collection: Elon
It is true that SpaceX is partially a government contractor, but it would be unfair to say that SpaceX is entirely a government contractor.Collection: Elon
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.Collection: Elon
Here in the West, people often don't like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.Collection: Elon
I'm trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.Collection: Elon
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.Collection: Elon
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.Collection: Elon
There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.Collection: Elon
What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn't there, we'd be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.Collection: Elon
There's nothing - I've bought everything I want. I don't like yachts or anything; you know, I'm not a yacht person, and I've got pretty much the nicest plane I'd want to have.Collection: Elon
From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. A little light just went on after four and a half billion years. How often does that happen? Maybe it is quite rare.Collection: Elon
I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them.Collection: Elon