It's a fixer-upper of a planet but we could make it work.

My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.

Let's think beyond the normal stuff and have an environment where that sort of thinking is encouraged and rewarded and where it's okay to fail as well. Because when you try new things, you try this idea, that idea... well a large number of them are not gonna work, and that has to be okay. If every time somebody comes up with an idea it has to be successful, you're not gonna get people coming up with ideas.

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

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.

I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google.

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.