Quotes from Elon Musk

Really pay attention to negative feedback and solicit it, particularly from friends. … Hardly anyone does that, and it's incredibly helpful.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you'll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it's twice the efficiency of a Prius.

Any parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life

We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun. You don't have to do anything, it just works. Shows up everyday and produces ridiculous amounts of power.

Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

If I'm not in love, if I'm not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

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.

I've been to Disneyland, like, 10 times. I'm getting really tired of Disneyland.

My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time

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

You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.

Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.

I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

When I was a child, there's one thing I said: 'I never want to be alone.' That's what I would say. I don't want to be alone.

If you don't have sustainable energy, you have unsustainable energy. The fundamental value of a company like Tesla is the degree to which it accelerates the advent of sustainable energy faster than it would otherwise occur.

The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable.

I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them.

I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.

We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.

The rumours of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated.