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

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

You shouldn't do things differently just because they're different. They need to be... better.

I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.

You need to live in a dome initially but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on. ... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.

People often mistake technology for a static picture. It's less like a picture and more like a movie. It's the velocity of technology innovation that matters. It's the acceleration.

There's a fundamental difference, if you sort of look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilization, that's out there exploring the stars...compared with one where we are forever confined to Earth until some eventual extinction event.