Well, my motivation behind Tesla is really to do as much good as possible for the environment and the electric-vehicle revolution. I think there is still a lot of work to do and if we were to sell to a big company, I'm not sure it would progress at the same pace.

I always see what’s... wrong. Would you want that? When I see a car or a rocket or spacecraft, I only see what’s wrong. I never see what’s right. It’s not a recipe for happiness.

With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.

Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.

I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380.

I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool.

Every mode of transport that we use - whether it's planes, trains, automobiles, bikes, horses - is reusable, but not rockets. So we must solve this problem in order to become a space-faring civilization.