Quotes By Elon Musk

I think I have a pretty deep understanding of what Money actually is on a practical day to day basis because of paypal. right now, the money system for practical purposes is really a bunch of heterogeneous mainframes running old COBOL.

The people that really solve the problem, they know exactly how they solved it, they know the little details. the people that pretended to solve the problem can maybe go one level then get stuck.

The reality is great highs, terrible lows and unrelenting stress. Don't think people want to hear about the last two.

The heroes of the books I read, The Lord of the Rings and the Foundation series, always felt a duty to save the world.

Your probability of dying on Mars is much higher than earth. Really, the ad for going to Mars would be like Shackleton's ad for going to the Antarctic: "It's gonna be hard. There's a good chance of death, going in a little can through deep space. You might land successfully. Once you land successfully, you'll be working nonstop to build the base."

The extreme difficulty of scaling production of new technology is not well understood. It's 1000% to 10,000% harder than making a few prototypes. The machine that makes the machine is vastly harder than the machine itself.

I'm nauseatingly pro-American. It is where great things are possible.

No, I don't ever give up. I'd have to be dead or completely incapacitated.

Many things are improbable, only a few are impossible.

I think there are too many smart people pursuing internet stuff, finance, and law. That is part of the reason why we haven't seen as much innovation.

I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380.

Stop being patient and start asking yourself, how do I accomplish my 10-year plan in 6 months? You will probably fail but you will be a lot further ahead of the person who simply accepted it was going to take 10 years.

People often mistake technology for a static picture. It's less like a picture and more like a movie. It's the velocity of technology innovation that matters. It's the acceleration.

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.

I'm increasingly inclined to think there should be some regulatory oversight [over AI], maybe at the national and international level just to make sure that we don't do something very foolish.

Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of what you're doing is as valuable as gold.