Elon Musk Quotes And Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

I Always Invest My Own Money In The Companies That I Create. I Don't Believe In The Whole Thing Of Just Using Other People's Money. I Don't Think That's Right. I'm Not Going To Ask Other People To Invest In Something If I'm Not Prepared To Do So Myself.

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.

A Company Is A Group Organized To Create A Product Or Service, And It Is Only As Good As Its People And How Excited They Are About Creating. I Do Want To Recognize A Ton Of Super-talented People. I Just Happen To Be The Face Of The Companies.

If Something's Important Enough, You Should Try. Even If You - The Probable Outcome Is Failure.

I Think Life On Earth Must Be About More Than Just Solving Problems... It's Got To Be Something Inspiring, Even If It Is Vicarious.

Automotive Franchise Laws Were Put In Place Decades Ago To Prevent A Manufacturer From Unfairly Opening Stores In Direct Competition With An Existing Franchise Dealer That Had Already Invested Time, Money And Effort To Open And Promote Their Business.

I Think Tesla Will Most Likely Develop Its Own Autopilot System For The Car, As I Think It Should Be Camera-based, Not Lidar-based. However, It Is Also Possible That We Do Something Jointly With Google.

I Usually Describe Myself As An Engineer; That's Basically What I've Been Doing Since I Was A Kid.

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.

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.

I Don't Think It's A Good Idea To Plan To Sell A Company.

Self-driving Cars Are The Natural Extension Of Active Safety And Obviously Something We Should Do.

Self-driving Cars Are The Natural Extension Of Active Safety And Obviously Something We Should Do.

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.

When Henry Ford Made Cheap, Reliable Cars People Said, 'Nah, What's Wrong With A Horse?' That Was A Huge Bet He Made, And It Worked.

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.

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.

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.

Boeing Just Took $20 Billion And 10 Years To Improve The Efficiency Of Their Planes By 10 Percent. That's Pretty Lame. I Have A Design In Mind For A Vertical Liftoff Supersonic Jet That Would Be A Really Big Improvement.

If Humanity Doesn't Land On Mars In My Lifetime, I Would Be Very Disappointed.

You Could Warm Mars Up, Over Time, With Greenhouse Gases.

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.

America Is The Spirit Of Human Exploration Distilled.

Mars Is The Only Place In The Solar System Where It's Possible For Life To Become Multi-planetarian.

The Rumours Of The Demise Of The U.s. Manufacturing Industry Are Greatly Exaggerated.

Facebook Is Quite Entrenched And Has A Network Effect. It's Hard To Break Into A Network Once It's Formed.

The Reason We Should Do A Carbon Tax Is Because It's The Right Thing To Do. It's Economics 101, Elementary Stuff.

The Future Of Humanity Is Going To Bifurcate In Two Directions: Either It's Going To Become Multiplanetary, Or It's Going To Remain Confined To One Planet And Eventually There's Going To Be An Extinction Event.

An Asteroid Or A Supervolcano Could Certainly Destroy Us, But We Also Face Risks The Dinosaurs Never Saw: An Engineered Virus, Nuclear War, Inadvertent Creation Of A Micro Black Hole, Or Some As-yet-unknown Technology Could Spell The End Of Us.

Biofuels Such As Ethanol Require Enormous Amounts Of Cropland And End Up Displacing Either Food Crops Or Natural Wilderness, Neither Of Which Is Good.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I Do Love Email. Wherever Possible I Try To Communicate Asynchronously. I'm Really Good At Email.

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.

I've Actually Not Read Any Books On Time Management.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If Anyone Has A Vested Interest In Space Solar Power, It Would Have To Be Me.

I'm Personally A Moderate And A Registered Independent, So I'm Not Strongly Democratic Or Strongly Republican.

I Think There Are More Politicians In Favor Of Electric Cars Than Against. There Are Still Some That Are Against, And I Think The Reasoning For That Varies Depending On The Person, But In Some Cases, They Just Don't Believe In Climate Change - They Think Oil Will Last Forever.