Elon Musk best Cool Quotes – “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.”
Elon Musk best Cool Quotes – “Rockets are cool. There’s no getting around that.”
Elon Musk best Communication Quotes – “I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.”
Elon Musk best Failure Quotes – “If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.”
Elon Musk best Failure Quotes – “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.”
Elon Musk best Environmental Quotes – “As you heat the planet up, it’s just like boiling a pot.”
Elon Musk best Environmental Quotes – “I’m anti-tax, but I’m pro-carbon tax.”
Elon Musk best Environmental Quotes – “Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.”
Elon Musk best Environmental Quotes – “The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we’re not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.”
Elon Musk best Environmental Quotes – “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.”
Elon Musk best Design Quotes – “There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.”
Elon Musk best Design Quotes – “So we originally expected to make about 35 gigawatt hours at the cell level and about 50 gigawatt hours at the module or pack level. Now we are expecting to do about 150 gigawatt hours in the same volumetric space as the original design.”
Elon Musk best Design Quotes – “The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.”
Elon Musk best Design Quotes – “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.”
Elon Musk best Design Quotes – “The path to the CEO’s office should not be through the CFO’s office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.”