Quotes By Elon Musk

I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

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.

We're already cyborgs. Your phone and your computer are extensions of you, but the interface is through finger movements or speech, which are very slow.

I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive.

If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.

Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.

Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.

I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.