I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

I don't think very highly of Henrik Fisker. [...H]e thinks the reason we don't have electric cars is for lack of styling

When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome.

So, there's quite a big keep-out zone, and when you factor the keep-out zone into account, the solar panels put on that area would typically generate more power than that nuclear power plant.

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

The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.

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.