“The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.”
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Optimistic Quotes — page 157 of 204
“I want to make rockets 100 times, if not 1,000 times better. The ultimate objective is to make humanity a multiplanet species. Thirty years from now, there'll be a base on the moon and on Mars, and people will be going back and forth on SpaceX rockets.”
“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.”
“There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.”
“It was obvious to me that we could never colonize Mars without reusability, any more than America would have been colonized if they had to burn the ships after every trip.”
“I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.”
“Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.”
“I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It's a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that's what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.”
“I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least.”
“Just a turn of the doorknob, and there lies freedom.”
“Always, at every period, the few were the banner bearers of a great idea, of liberating effort. Not so the mass, the leaden weight of which does not let it move.”
“Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair. If one truly responds to man and his future, ie , concernedly and "responsibly." one can respond only by faith or by despair. Rational faith as well as rational despair are based on the most thorough, critical knowledge of all the factors that are relevant for the survival of man.”
“If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.”
“I don't have to know everything that's gonna happen, I know enough.”
“The laws of the Universe are responding to me.”
“I like it that we all get to choose differently.”
“There is absolutely nothing that you desire that you cannot achieve.”
“Physical beings want things to be the same. They want people to think the same. You work rather hard at sameness, but you will never win that battle because, from Nonphysical, diversity is known to be the most beneficial part of the game.”
“Your path is not narrow... so you can't mess it up.”
“All physical beings have communication from their inner being in the form of emotion, and so, whenever your emotion is positive, you can know that you are in harmony with your inner intention.”