Elon Musk Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.”

“You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.”

“I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.”

“It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.”

“I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I've got kids and responsibilities, so I can't be my own test pilot. That wouldn't be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it's a sensible thing to do.”

“Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.”

“The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we'd never have had the light bulb.”

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

“My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.”

“People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.”