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 o…"

"... I plan to travel to Mars and make it my home."

"Well, I have tried to learn as much as possible from prior attempts."

"Sooner or later, we must expand life beyond our little blue mud ball--or go extinct."

"The long term ultimate objective – the holy grail – is we would like to help make life multi-planetary."

"I don't think most people, even in the aerospace industry, like, know what question to ask. Like it took us a long time to even frame the question correctly. But once we could frame the question corre…"

"Tuition costs are outrageous. Fortunately, they gave me a scholarship…so I only had to cover living expenses, books, etc., by working."

"SpaceX's got 5,000 people. I get a lot of attention, but they are really doing the work."