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“Almost all that matters regarding Starship is that it enables consciousness to extend permanently beyond Earth. Everything else is in the noise.” – Elon Musk

Elon Musk on building a self-sustaining Mars colony: “I think it can be done in 20 years. We're going to need on the order of a million people, maybe a million tons of cargo.”

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“Quite frankly, I expected failure. I really just wanted to do something that was as useful as possible. That was it, really.” – Elon Musk

Elon Musk on Starship's booster catch: “That's the kind of thing that's inspiring and exciting.”

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Maye Musk on Elon being the world's richest person: “I think that wasn't his goal. His goal was just to do good things. He saw so many opportunities where he could do good things.”

Elon Musk on designing things: “Really pay attention to the little details, the nuances of design, shape, form, and function and the way it looks in different lights. Most people don't consciously see the small details, but they do subconsciously see them.”

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“Unless civilization collapses, SpaceX will make life multiplanetary.” – Elon Musk

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“People should feel proud when they do something that's useful to their fellow human beings. It doesn't always have to be something that's changing the world.” – Elon Musk

“It's wild that this giant 250-ton object went to space, came back, and was caught by giant Mechazilla arms. It's super cool! That's the kind of thing that is inspiring and exciting.” – Elon Musk

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“Nobody's more keen on doing electric aircraft then me or JB.” Elon Musk, 2016

“Manufacturing is so hard. I have the utmost respect for those who build things.” – Elon Musk

“You could actually power the entire United States with a 100 miles by 100 miles of solar.” – Elon Musk

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“Starship is the first rocket/spaceship capable of making life multiplanetary, which requires it to be both far more powerful and far more advanced than anything that came before.” – Elon Musk

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For Elon Musk, Mars is just the first step in humanity's space adventure: “Establishing a self-sustaining city on Mars will be a strong forcing function for the improvement of spaceflight technology that will then enable us to establish colonies elsewhere in the solar system, and ultimately extend beyond our solar system.” (Interview at Start Me Up Hong Kong, January 26, 2016)

“There is no company in the world that is as good at real-world AI as Tesla. I don't even know who's in second place. I would need a very big telescope to see them. That's how far behind they are.” – Elon Musk

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Elon Musk presenting Starship in 2019: “This is, I think, the most inspiring thing I've ever seen.”

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“I'm a technologist first and foremost.” – Elon Musk

Elon Musk: Tesla's full self-driving will drive the single biggest asset value increase in history “It's not that full self-driving will be as good as a person. It will be much, much better, 10 times safer than a person. It's not even going to be a contest frankly. So this is a really big deal. Being able to do a software update and have several million cars suddenly go from manual driving to autonomous, I think will be the single biggest asset value increase in history. The normal usage of a passenger car is roughly 10 to 12 hours per week, call it maybe an hour and a half per day. When you drive around you see lots of cars just parked in parking lots because out of the 168 hours in a week, they're used less than 10%, maybe 7%. But once it is autonomous it can be used probably 50 hours a week, maybe more. So it is effectively a fivefold increase in the value of a car overnight. I'm actually surprised that so few people realize this, or maybe they just don't believe it's real, but it is. So, this is really an insanely big deal.” From: Tesla's 2023 Shareholder Meeting, May 16, 2023

Elon Musk: If something unexpected happens and we only have one planet, that could be curtains for humanity. “Any given civilization is likely to last maybe 10 times longer, maybe much longer if it is a multiplanet civilization than if it is a single-planet civilization. Because there's always some chance that, you know, us humans could do something crazy like World War III. Hopefully not, but it's possible. Or that there could be some natural event like meteors or super volcanoes or something that we don't expect and then if we only have one planet, then that could be curtains. But if we have two planets, we keep going and then we go beyond Mars ultimately to maybe the asteroid belt, the moons of Jupiter and beyond, and ultimately to other star systems and we can be out there among the stars, making science fiction no longer fiction.” From: SpaceX Update, May 29, 2025

Elon Musk: I have no respect for the warmongers and the war profiteers. “I have no respect for the warmongers and the war profiteers and those who want the war to continue forever for their own purposes. This is, in my view, an evil thing, because I'll talk to someone on the left and they'll say, we must not give to Russia. I'm like, but you have no plan for success. So what you are suggesting then is that we send these poor kids into the meat grinder every day for nothing, with no end in sight, forever. That is cruel, inhumane, and senseless. So President Trump is right in this regard. There must be peace. And it's time for the slaughter of the young men and old men to stop. It's time to stop this senseless death machine. That's really what it comes down to. Those who are pro-war, they have the appearance of empathy. They're hypocrites and liars. If you want the reality of empathy, we must stop the senseless everyday death that lasts forever. That's what true empathy is. We should care about those men who are dying in the trenches in Ukraine and Russia who didn't want to be there. They're conscripted, they're forced to be there. They're forced to be Ukraine conscripted, Russia conscripted. They're forced to kill each other. Why? For how long? It's time to stop.” From: Interview with Matteo Salvini, April 5, 2025