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

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" Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry. "

" I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point. "

" Tesla is becoming a real car company. "

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

" Even if producing CO2 was good for the environment, given that we're going to run out of hydrocarbons, we need to find some sustainable means of operating. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax. "

" I'm trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me. "

" My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars - this is very important - so you don't have to carry the return fuel when you go there. "

" Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do. "

" 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. "

" Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups. "

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

Life Is Too Short

" People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else. "

" 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. "

" Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives. "

" 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. "

" I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?' "

" If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things. "

" I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy. "