Elon Musk says

“I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness, to make sure it continues into the future”

—Elon Musk

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“It is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.”

—Elon Musk

“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

“We’re going to build a road to space so that our kids and their kids can build the future. And we need to do that. We need to do that to solve the problems here on Earth. It’s not about escaping.”

—Jeff Bezos

“I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad.”

—Elon Musk

“If humanity is to become multi-planetary, the fundamental breakthrough that needs to occur in rocketry is a rapidly and completely reusable rocket … achieving it would be on a par with what the Wright brothers did. It’s the fundamental thing that’s necessary for humanity to become a space-faring civilization. America would never have been colonized if ships weren’t reusable.”

—Elon Musk

“I think it would be great to be born on Earth and die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact.”

—Elon Musk

“If only international politics and relations was as easy as rocket science.”

—Scott Manley

“There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future?”

—Elon Musk

“A rocket is a huge engineering compromise.”

—Peter Beck

“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour.”

—Elon Musk

“I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.”

—Elon Musk

“Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.”

—Elon Musk

“The Best Part Is No Part...”

—Elon Musk

“That always seemed to be the dumbest constraint you can imagine as like the dome of the rocket is set by the lowest bridge between California and Florida.”

—Peter Beck

“There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.”

—Elon Musk