472 Quotes by elon musk

You want to do things you’re passionate about but also are useful to other people.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.

If you’re not concerned about AI safety, you should be. Vastly more risk than North Korea.

If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.

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.

But wait, there’s more: the flamethrower is sentient, its safe word is “cryptocurrency” and it comes with a free blockchain.

Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That’s pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

Obviously, a flamethrower is a super terrible idea. Definitely don’t buy one.