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

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.

I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them.

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.

I want to make rockets 100 times, if not 1,000 times better. The ultimate objective is to make humanity a multiplanet species. Thirty years from now, there'll be a base on the moon and on Mars, and people will be going back and forth on SpaceX rockets.

I don't think very highly of Henrik Fisker. [...H]e thinks the reason we don't have electric cars is for lack of styling

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.