I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

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.

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.

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.

What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

If you go back back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.