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" I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company. "

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

Life Is Too Short

" If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive. "

" 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. "

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

" The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not. "

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

The Right Thing

" 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. "

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

" The goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we're going to take a step back and think about what's most likely to achieve that goal. "

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

" 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. "

" You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases. "

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

" 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. "

" The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor. "

" 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. "

" The rumours of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster. "

" Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business. "

" I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything. "

" 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. "