Elon Musk

What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

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.

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

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.

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.

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

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

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

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

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.

I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

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

America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.

I've been to Disneyland, like, 10 times. I'm getting really tired of Disneyland.

I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.

I 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.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

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

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.