Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner but you need the production of energy in a sustainable manner.
Elon MuskI think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.
Elon MuskSome companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.
Elon MuskMy background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.
Elon MuskI think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it's like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truthsโฆand then reason up from there.
Elon Musk