Elon Musk

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.

Elon Musk

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Elon Musk

Many things are improbable, only a few are impossible.

Elon Musk

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

Elon Musk

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

Elon Musk

My family fears that the Russians will assassinate me.

Elon Musk

My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars – this is very important – so you don’t have to carry the return fuel when you go there.

Elon Musk

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

Elon Musk

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

So, there’s quite a big keep-out zone, and when you factor the keep-out zone into account, the solar panels put on that area would typically generate more power than that nuclear power plant.

Elon Musk