Elon Musk - Space Quotes

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One was the Internet, one was clean energy and one was space.

Elon Musk
I think the reason it's cheaper is, first of all, we are a private entity and we have a very lean system in here. What we have been able to do here at SpaceX is to cherry-pick, you know, the top one or two percent and give them, you know, capital to execute well and a clear mission, which is low cost, reliable access to space, and no other constraints.

Elon Musk
It doesn't do a great deal to advance the goal of humanity. I would pay $20 million not to spend six months in Russia. And besides this, my interest is how do we enable many other people to go to space, not necessarily me, personally.

Elon Musk
We are used to things improving every year; we are used to having a better cell phone next year than this year; a better lap top. We are even used to some basic things, like we expect more from your car in next year's model than last year's model. But this is not the case in space; reliability and cost - those are the fundamental parameters of transportation - have not improved.

Elon Musk
I like to be involved in things that change the world. The Internet did, and space will probably be more responsible for changing the world than anything else. If humanity can expand beyond the Earth, obviously that's where the future is.

Elon Musk
When thinking about starting a business, I think it's actually better to start in a trough and come to market in a peak, than the other way around. Frankly, if anything does, and it's almost cliché, space has a long-term future.

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