You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.

You shouldn't do things differently just because they're different. They need to be... better.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

You could power the entire United States with about 150 to 200 square kilometers of solar panels, the entire United States. Take a corner of Utah... there's not much going on there, I've been there. There's not even radio stations.

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

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

To our knowledge, life exists on only one planet, Earth. If something bad happens, it's gone. I think we should establish life on another planet-Mars in particular-but we 're not making very good progress. SpaceX is intended to make that happen.