I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems. Elon Musk conceptengineerhigh Change image and share on social
Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive. Elon Musk counterintuitivediscoverfigure Change image and share on social
The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design. Elon Musk ceocfodepartment Change image and share on social
I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration. Elon Musk commercialdawnera Change image and share on social
You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet. Elon Musk domeeartheventually Change image and share on social
If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive. Elon Musk buyexpensivefly Change image and share on social
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 carryearthfuel share on social
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 admissionbuycomputer share on social
If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman. Elon Musk ageawfulday share on social
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. Elon Musk accessagoamount share on social