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

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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. "

" 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. "

" Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be several times what it is for the car business. "

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

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

" For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it's been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I'd just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times. "

" 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. "

" America is the spirit of human exploration distilled. "

" 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. "

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

" What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad. "

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

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

" A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery. "

" 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. "

" I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company. "

" When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved. "

" 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. "

" Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement. "

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

" 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. "