Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner but you need the production of energy in a sustainable manner.

I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.

It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.

We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.

It's really incumbent upon us as life's agents to extend life to another planet. I think that being a multi-planet species will significantly increase the richness and scope of the human experience.

The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries.

I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.