My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon. Didn't work out.

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.

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.