472 Quotes by elon musk

If you go back back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

A lot depends on our first launch, ... Even though I really want to launch as soon as possible, I don't want to take any chances. I'd rather be late than sorry.

What I'm trying to do is to maximise the probability of the future being better.

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

Actively seek out and listen carefully to negative feedback.

I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.

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.

I read books and talked to people. I mean that's kind of how one learns anything. There's lots of great books out there & lots of smart people.

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.