Elon Musk says

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

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“Archimedes is the boringest engine that we can build in a lot of sense.”

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

“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.”

“We need to take all heavy industry, all polluting industry, and move it into space. And keep Earth as this beautiful gem of a planet that it is.”

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

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

“Like a rocket is just a giant engineering compromise, and you just have to choose where you're gonna eat the pain and you can choose it in propulsion. You can choose it in structures. You know, where is the bit that's gonna destroy your life?”

“It's a lot easier to build something bigger than smaller.”

“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.”

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

“My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent.”

“A rocket is a huge engineering compromise.”

“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.”

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