I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.

Even if producing CO2 was good for the environment, given that we're going to run out of hydrocarbons, we need to find some sustainable means of operating.

Funded by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from the people. Sometimes people forget that that's really what occurs.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.

I'm increasingly inclined to think there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level just to make sure that we don't do something very foolish.

I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.