List of Elon Musk Quotes

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.

If We Could Do High-speed Rail In California Just Half A Notch Above What They've Done On The Shanghai Line In China, And If We Had A Straight Path From L.A. To San Francisco, As Well As The Milk Run, At Least That Would Be Progress.

People Should Pursue What They're Passionate About. That Will Make Them Happier Than Pretty Much Anything Else.

I Will Never Be Happy Without Having Someone. Going To Sleep Alone Kills Me.

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.

SpaceX Is Only 12 Years Old Now. Between Now And 2040, The Company's Lifespan Will Have Tripled. If We Have Linear Improvement In Technology, As Opposed To Logarithmic, Then We Should Have A Significant Base On Mars, Perhaps With Thousands Or Tens Of Thousands Of People.

Rockets Are Cool. There's No Getting Around That

We're Running The Most Dangerous Experiment In History Right Now, Which Is To See How Much Carbon Dioxide The Atmosphere... Can Handle Before There Is An Environmental Catastrophe.

There's A Silly Notion That Failure's Not An Option At NASA. Failure Is An Option Here. If Things Are Not Failing, You Are Not Innovating Enough.

With Artificial Intelligence, We Are Summoning The Demon. You Know All Those Stories Where There's The Guy With The Pentagram And The Holy Water, And He's Like, Yeah, He's Sure He Can Control The Demon? Doesn't Work Out.

If Something's Important Enough, You Should Try. Even If - The Probable Outcome Is Failure

Patience Is A Virtue, And I'm Learning Patience. It's A Tough Lesson.