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

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" America is the spirit of human exploration distilled. "

" Any product that needs a manual to work is broken. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" If you don't have sustainable energy, you have unsustainable energy. The fundamental value of a company like Tesla is the degree to which it accelerates the advent of sustainable energy faster than it would otherwise occur. "

" It's obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient way to use cellulose is to burn it in a co-generation power plant. That will yield the most energy and that is something you can do today. "

" The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we'd never have had the light bulb. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Great companies are built on great products. "

" The factory is the machine that builds the machine. "

" 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. "

" I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool. "

" If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman. "

" It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket. "

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

" If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive. "

" Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do. "

" Here in the West, people often don't like listening to their leaders, even if they are right. "

" I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems. "

" I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don't believe in climate change - they think oil will last forever. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "