01c. 1971 ADThere 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.Elon Musk / quote ↗
03c. 1971 ADI'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool.Elon Musk / quote ↗
04c. 1971 ADI 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.Elon Musk / quote ↗
05c. 1971 ADI 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.Elon Musk / quote ↗
06c. 1971 ADI do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.Elon Musk / quote ↗
07c. 1971 ADNobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.Elon Musk / quote ↗
08c. 1971 ADSelling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.Elon Musk / quote ↗
10c. 1971 ADThe 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.Elon Musk / quote ↗
11c. 1971 ADI think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.Elon Musk / quote ↗
12c. 1971 ADI 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.Elon Musk / quote ↗
13c. 1971 ADIf we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.Elon Musk / quote ↗
14c. 1971 ADLand on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.Elon Musk / quote ↗
15c. 1971 ADIn order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.Elon Musk / quote ↗
16c. 1971 ADIf you look at space companies, they've failed either because they've had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.Elon Musk / quote ↗
17c. 1971 ADWhat I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.Elon Musk / quote ↗
18c. 1971 ADIf anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.Elon Musk / quote ↗
19c. 1971 ADIt 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.Elon Musk / quote ↗
20c. 1971 ADSo we originally expected to make about 35 gigawatt hours at the cell level and about 50 gigawatt hours at the module or pack level. Now we are expecting to do about 150 gigawatt hours in the same volumetric space as the original design.Elon Musk / quote ↗
21c. 1971 ADReally, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.Elon Musk / quote ↗
22c. 1971 ADPeople 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.Elon Musk / quote ↗
23c. 1971 ADIf 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.Elon Musk / quote ↗
24c. 1971 ADI'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.Elon Musk / quote ↗
