Author of quotes: Elon Musk

The right to bear arms is an important safeguard against potential government tyranny.

I would like to die on Mars - but not from hitting the surface.

For four billion years of earthly history, no more than half a dozen really important events have occurred: the emergence of single-celled organisms, the emergence of multicellular organisms, the division into the animal kingdom and the plant kingdom, the exit of animals from water to land, the development of mammals and the development of consciousness. The next big step should be the idea of interplanetary life – an unprecedented journey that will dramatically change us and enrich us.

I want to be a part of what changes the world.

I have my own graveyard of failed attempts. There are many tombstones, and somewhere in the depths are full of freshly dug graves that are waiting for something to be in them. But I do my best to keep them empty.

Failure is a great chance. If you don’t face failure, you cannot invent new things.

I think it is very important the feedback: think about what you are doing, and how to make it better.
I think this is the best advice: always think how you can do even better, and check yourself.

To create a good company - how to bake a good cake: you just need to take the correct ingredients in the correct proportions.

To perform complex work do not have to hire a lot of people. The number of never compensate for talent, and two people who don't know something are no better than the same one.

Imagine: you smoooches invented a machine that picks strawberries. It is every day build it better and better, more and more. It is beginning to like picking strawberries. It is logical that at some point she will want to have on the entire planet was a solid strawberry field. Now imagine that you are going to shut down this robot, so he won't destroy mankind, trying to cultivate strawberries. You'll be the first one he killed.

We're already practically cyborgs. Phone, computer is your continuation. But your interaction is done by finger movement or speech, and it is very slow. A brain-controlled interface will appear, I think, four or five years.

The least scary future that I can think of is that we at least democratized artificial intelligence, because if one company or small group of people will be able to develop digital godlike superintelligence, they will be able to take over the world.

Everyone, even the most vicious and heinous dictators had one thing in common - they were mortal. However, artificial intelligence does not exist such thing as death. He can exist forever. From such evil people have nowhere to hide.

Twitter is a war zone.