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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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" 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. "

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

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation. "

" 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. "

" What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn't there, we'd be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Great companies are built on great products. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A utility can handle up to 20% of production from solar and that helps the grid because it produces electricity when needed. Solar power peaks in the middle of the day and that's also when air conditioning is running and businesses are operating, so power production matches usage. "

" Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution. "

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

" Tesla is becoming a real car company. "

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

" An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world. "

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

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

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

" I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor. "

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