Elon Musk

Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.

Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.

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

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

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.

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.

If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

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

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

I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least.

I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool.

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

I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.

I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.

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

I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

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 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.

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.