472 Quotes by Elon Musk

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games. Nothing like saving the world.

I’m increasingly inclined to think there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish.

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it’s always expensive.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

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 lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

When I started SpaceX I thought that the most likely outcome was failure. And I think to have any other expectation would have been irrational.

Technology breakthrough: turns out chemtrails are actually a message from time-traveling aliens describing the secret of teleportation.