Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.

The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable.

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.

I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.

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

When you struggle with a problem, that's when you understand it.

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.