I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors.… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart. — Elon Musk Good heart Copy Share Image
And we need things in life that are exciting and inspiring. It can't just be about solving some awful problem. There have… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
I always see what’s... wrong. Would you want that? When I see a car or a rocket or spacecraft, I only see… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You… — Elon Musk Business Copy Share Image
I always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out ‘what does it all mean?’ I came to the conclusion that if… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life… — Elon Musk Age Copy Share Image
It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take… — Elon Musk America Copy Share Image
The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear… — Elon Musk Asteroid Copy Share Image
I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing of just using… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
On one of the SpaceX flights, we had a secret payload: a wheel of cheese. We flew to orbit and brought it… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
I like the word 'autopilot' more than I like the word 'self-driving.' 'Self-driving' sounds like it's going to do something you don't… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it… — Elon Musk Earth Copy Share Image
My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric.… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
It's really incumbent upon us as life's agents to extend life to another planet. I think that being a multi-planet species will… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars -… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
In almost any industry, if you're passionate about doing a great job and making people that buy your product or service as… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it's been several years now and there have been some very tough… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
I'm extremely confident that solar will be at least a plurality of power, and most likely a majority... in less than 20 years. — Elon Musk Climate Copy Share Image
I read books and talked to people. I mean that's kind of how one learns anything. There's lots of great books out… — Elon Musk Book Copy Share Image
Every mode of transport that we use - whether it's planes, trains, automobiles, bikes, horses - is reusable, but not rockets. So… — Elon Musk Automobile Copy Share Image
Talent is extremely important. It's like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
It's obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient way to use cellulose is to… — Elon Musk Biofuels Copy Share Image
You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
