Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.

I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

I think that's an important thing to do, to really pay attention to negative feedback, and solicit it, particularly from friends. This may sound like simple advice, but hardly anyone does that, and it's incredibly helpful.

You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it.

Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.

Well, my motivation behind Tesla is really to do as much good as possible for the environment and the electric-vehicle revolution. I think there is still a lot of work to do and if we were to sell to a big company, I'm not sure it would progress at the same pace.