472 Quotes by elon musk

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

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

People often mistake technology for a static picture. It's less like a picture and more like a movie. It's the velocity of technology innovation that matters. It's the acceleration.

If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380.

I like the word 'autopilot' more than I like the word 'self-driving.' 'Self-driving' sounds like it's going to do something you don't want it to do. 'Autopilot' is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.

I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric.

We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun, you don't have to do anything, it just works. It shows up every day.