“For my part, I will never give up, and I mean never.”

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

If humanity doesn’t land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

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

Government isn’t that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you’ve got to have commercial companies do it.

I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

Great differences in technology exist in the world about which even hardcore technologists are unaware.

Many things are improbable, only a few are impossible.

The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it’s going to become multiplanetary, or it’s going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there’s going to be an extinction event.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Moral condemnation used not for morality, but as a weapon for manipulation is messed up

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.

People will buy the car just because it’s a great car. We want them to think it’s excellent value for money and then, oh yeah, it happens to be electric.

You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that’s wrong with it and fix it.

Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.

Strategy is figuring out what not to do.

What is the one sentence summary of how you change the world? Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!

The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.

If his forces are united, separate them.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.

There’s a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way.