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" I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious. "
Elon Musk
Earth
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" 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. "
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" It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Life is too short for long-term grudges. "
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" If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive. "
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" SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete. "
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" The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries. "
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" We polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. That's pretty telling. "
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" I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side. "
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" 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. "
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" 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 want it to do. 'Autopilot' is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars. "
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" 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. "
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" I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact. "
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" In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business. "
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" In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate. "
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" My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me. "
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" If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things. "
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" A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies. "
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" Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good. "
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" I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google. "
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" SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people. "
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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. "
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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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" In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution. "
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" I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It's a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that's what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is. "
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" I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration. "
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" 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. "
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" Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution. "
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