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The typical project design time for a large company like IBM – and they keep track of this – is a little over four years.

I wish we could be private with Tesla. It actually makes us less efficient to be a public company.

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.

Who decides what’s in Windows? The customers who buy it.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

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.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.