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.

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.

I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.

I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

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.