Elon Musk quotes - page 5

If you go back back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago. (Elon Musk)
I think it matters whether someone has a good heart. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done. View quote
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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. (Elon Musk)
The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design. View quote
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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. View quote
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Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good. View quote
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America is the spirit of human exploration distilled. View quote
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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. View quote
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The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries. View quote
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If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things. View quote
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I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything. View quote
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Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it. View quote
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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. (Elon Musk)
I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. View quote
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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. View quote
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In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution. View quote
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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. View quote
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