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

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" The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries. "

" 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. "

" Great companies are built on great products. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least. "

" If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me. "

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

" 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. "

" Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that. "

" 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. "

" Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good. "

" Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian. "

" You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet. "

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

Change The World

" 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. "

" In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. A little light just went on after four and a half billion years. How often does that happen? Maybe it is quite rare. "

" I think it matters whether someone has a good heart. "