472 Quotes by elon musk

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

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

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes,

We're not going to cut and run if we have a few issues. We're not going to cut and run if we have a lot of issues. We're going to see this through.

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.

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.

To the best of my knowledge, every booster engine qualification program in history has had numerous failures of the kind that recently occurred with Merlin, so this is not unusual.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.