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

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" There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties. "

" Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner, but you need the production of energy in a sustainable manner. "

" 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 think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future. "

" My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars - this is very important - so you don't have to carry the return fuel when you go there. "

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

" I've been to Disneyland, like, 10 times. I'm getting really tired of Disneyland. "

" 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. "

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

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

" If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along. Anything that breaks it at any point stops that growth. "

" It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it's been possible, and that window could be open for a long time - hopefully it is - or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now. "

" The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design. "

" Life is too short for long-term grudges. "

Life Is Too Short

" 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. "

" Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do. "

" 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 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. "

" It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere. "

" There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions. "

" There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness. "

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

" If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago. "

" People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working. "

" I've actually not read any books on time management. "

Time Management

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

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" 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. "