"You should be innovating so fast that..." - Quote by Elon Musk

“Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.”

“I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.”

“My motivation for all my companies has been to be involved in something that I thought would have a significant impact on the world.”

“Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.”

“Creativity is just connecting things.”

“The microprocessor is a miracle.”

“What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.”

“I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the next in an upward course or whether we just ride the cycles of boom and bust, war and peace, ascent and decline.”

“Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”