Elon Musk

The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced. ”

When I was a child, there's one thing I said: 'I never want to be alone.' That's what I would say. I don't want to be alone. ”

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself. ”

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

Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good. ”

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world. ”

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

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. ”

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives. ”

If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation. ”