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" Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It's hard to break into a network once it's formed. "

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

" I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy. "

" There's nothing - I've bought everything I want. I don't like yachts or anything; you know, I'm not a yacht person, and I've got pretty much the nicest plane I'd want to have. "

" It is theoretically possible to warp spacetime itself, so you're not actually moving faster than the speed of light, but it's actually space that's moving. "

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

" The U.S. automotive industry has been selling cars the same way for over 100 years, and there are many laws in place to govern exactly how that is to be accomplished. "

" It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will. "

" The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff. "

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

" Tesla is becoming a real car company. "

" If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not. "

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

" I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?' "

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

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

" I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing of just using other people's money. I don't think that's right. I'm not going to ask other people to invest in something if I'm not prepared to do so myself. "

" So we originally expected to make about 35 gigawatt hours at the cell level and about 50 gigawatt hours at the module or pack level. Now we are expecting to do about 150 gigawatt hours in the same volumetric space as the original design. "

" 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've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric. "

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

" We could definitely make a flying car - but that's not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that's super safe and quiet? Because if it's a howler, you're going to make people very unhappy. "

" I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax. "

" I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor. "

" America is the spirit of human exploration distilled. "

" If you don't have sustainable energy, you have unsustainable energy. The fundamental value of a company like Tesla is the degree to which it accelerates the advent of sustainable energy faster than it would otherwise occur. "

" From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. A little light just went on after four and a half billion years. How often does that happen? Maybe it is quite rare. "

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

" It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don't think it's possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car. "

" The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we'd never have had the light bulb. "

" Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done. "