There's a fundamental difference, if you sort of look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilization, that's out there exploring the stars...compared with one where we are forever confined to Earth until some eventual extinction event.

Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It's hard to break into a network once it's formed.

Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.

You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

The tough thing is figuring out what questions to ask, but […] once you do that, the rest is really easy.

I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.