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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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" Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson. "

" Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It's hard to break into a network once it's formed. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" America is the spirit of human exploration distilled. "

" In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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

" I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I've got kids and responsibilities, so I can't be my own test pilot. That wouldn't be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it's a sensible thing to do. "

" I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself. "

" 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. "

" I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing of just using other people's money. I don't think that's right. I'm not going to ask other people to invest in something if I'm not prepared to do so myself. "

" We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe. "

" It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don't think it's possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious. "

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" Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world. "

" The U.S. automotive industry has been selling cars the same way for over 100 years, and there are many laws in place to govern exactly how that is to be accomplished. "