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.
ELON MUSKInnovation comes in many ways.
More Elon Musk Quotes
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The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn’t even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we’d never have had the light bulb.
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Fear is a hard thing to deal with. I feel it quite strongly. If I think something is important enough, I’ll make myself do it in spite of fear. But it can really sap the will. I hate fear, I wish I had it less.
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Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
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When you struggle with a problem, that’s when you understand it.
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Only the heart senses beauty.
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No I don’t ever give up. I would have to be dead or completely incapacitated.
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People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.
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Never trust cynics, as they excuse their own bad deeds by telling themselves everyone does it.
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You shouldn’t do things differently just because they’re different. They need to be better.
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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.
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Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.
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My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.
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Work like hell.
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A company is a group of people organized to create a product or service, and that product or service is only as good as the people in the company.
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I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
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