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

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.

To our knowledge, life exists on only one planet, Earth. If something bad happens, it's gone. I think we should establish life on another planet-Mars in particular-but we 're not making very good progress. SpaceX is intended to make that happen.