Elon Musk Quotes

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.

~ Elon Musk

I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don't believe in climate change - they think oil will last forever.

~ Elon Musk

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

~ Elon Musk

I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric.

~ Elon Musk

We could definitely make a flying car - but that's not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that's super safe and quiet? Because if it's a howler, you're going to make people very unhappy.

~ Elon Musk

Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be several times what it is for the car business.

~ Elon Musk

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.

~ Elon Musk

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

~ Elon Musk

Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.

~ Elon Musk

Tesla is becoming a real car company.

~ Elon Musk

Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry.

~ Elon Musk

A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage.

~ Elon Musk

I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google.

~ Elon Musk

Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.

~ Elon Musk

I like the word 'autopilot' more than I like the word 'self-driving.' 'Self-driving' sounds like it's going to do something you don't want it to do. 'Autopilot' is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.

~ Elon Musk

The U.S. automotive industry has been selling cars the same way for over 100 years, and there are many laws in place to govern exactly how that is to be accomplished.

~ Elon Musk

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

~ Elon Musk

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

~ Elon Musk

I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

~ Elon Musk

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

As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot.

~ Elon Musk

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

~ Elon Musk

I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least.

~ Elon Musk

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.

~ Elon Musk