Elon Musk

I usually describe myself as an engineer; that's basically what I've been doing since I was a kid. ”

There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties. ”

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete. ”

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing of just using other people's money. I don't think that's right. I'm not going to ask other people to invest in something if I'm not prepared to do so myself. ”

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. ”

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago. ”

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me. ”

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. ”

Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that. ”

If I'm not in love, if I'm not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy. ”