Elon Musk Quotes
"To our knowledge, life exists on only one planet, Earth. If something bad happens, it's gone. I think we should establish life on another planet--Mars in particular--but we're not making very good progress. SpaceX is intended to make that happen.""Ancient Greece had it all & then committed suicide. Nobody digs your grave better than yourself.""And we need things in life that are exciting and inspiring. It can't just be about solving some awful problem. There have to be reasons to get up in the morning.""Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time.""We have a strict 'no a-hole policy' at SpaceX. And we fire people that are. I mean, we give them a little bit of warning. But if they continue to be an a-hole, then they're fired.""I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.""I've always wanted to be part of something that would radically change the world ... People forget the power of inspiration. All of humanity went to the moon with the Apollo missions. The issue was cost. There was no chance to build a base and create frequ""If you go 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 be""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.""It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.""I'm nauseatingly pro-American. I would have come here from any country. The U.S. is where great things are possible.""You could power the entire United States with about 050 to 200 square kilometers of solar panels, the entire United States. Take a corner of Utah... there's not much going on there, I've been there. There's not even radio stations.""Every 5000th buyer of our boringly boring hat will get a free hat signed by the delivery guy.""Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.""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.""With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon. Didn't work out.""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.""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.""The key test for an acronym is to ask whether it helps or hurts communication.""I love the thought of a car drifting apparently endlessly through space and perhaps being discovered by an alien race millions of years in the future."
