For my part, I will never give up, and I mean never.
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.
Many things are improbable, only a few are impossible.
As a child I would just question things...
With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it’s like, yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon. Didn’t work out.
I’ve actually not read any books on time management.
I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.
So, there’s quite a big keep-out zone, and when you factor the keep-out zone into account, the solar panels put on that area would typically generate more power than that nuclear power plant.
The primary means of energy generation is going to solar. It will at least be a plurality, and probably be a slight majority in the long term.
We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun, you don’t have to do anything, it just works. It shows up every day.
I think there are too many smart people pursuing internet stuff, finance, and law. That is part of the reason why we haven’t seen as much innovation.
That’s my lesson for taking a vacation: vacation will kill you.
Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of what you’re doing is as valuable as gold.
The key test for an acronym is to ask whether it helps or hurts communication.
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.
Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.
What I’m trying to do is to maximise the probability of the future being better.
When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome.
Actively seek out and listen carefully to negative feedback.
People will buy the car just because it’s a great car. We want them to think it’s excellent value for money and then, oh yeah, it happens to be electric.