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"Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it."
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"If there seems no answers then create and apply them."

"Create an environment that fosters the creative genius within you!"

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"When you think there is nothing left to improve on, your business dies, for there is no shortage of innovators."

"We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different."

"Nothing is more important than a great idea that influenced thedevelopment of civilization."

"Inside the human mind, an idea is a mental spark that occurs as a response to the challenge of a train of thought."

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

"It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere."

"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."

"You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place."

"Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car."

"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? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing."

"I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google."

"There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their success rate, but you have to take risks."
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