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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place. "

" I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens. "

" We polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. That's pretty telling. "

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

" A utility can handle up to 20% of production from solar and that helps the grid because it produces electricity when needed. Solar power peaks in the middle of the day and that's also when air conditioning is running and businesses are operating, so power production matches usage. "

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

" 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. "

" Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that. "

" I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side. "

" 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 do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple's product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium. "

" An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us. "

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

" I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself. "

" The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative. "

" You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet. "

" Tesla is becoming a real car company. "

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

" 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. "

" With DNA, you have to be able to tell which genes are turned on or off. Current DNA sequencing cannot do that. The next generation of DNA sequencing needs to be able to do this. If somebody invents this, then we can start to very precisely identify cures for diseases. "

" I think it matters whether someone has a good heart. "

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

" Great companies are built on great products. "

" The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S. "

" The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX. "

" What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn't there, we'd be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered. "

" There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing. "

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

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