Elon Musk

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

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 do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.

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.

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.