"My family fears that the Russians will..." - Quote by Elon Musk

“The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.”

“The tough thing is figuring out what questions to ask, but […] once you do that, the rest is really easy.”

“I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.”

“Man is but mortal: and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend. Mr. Pickwick gazed through his spectacles for an instant on the advancing mass, and then fairly turned his back and-we will not say fled; firstly, because it is an ignoble term, and, secondly, because Mr. Pickwick's figure was by no means adapted for that mode of retreat-he trotted away, at as quick a rate as his legs would convey him;.”

“He who worries about calamities suffers them twice over.”

“Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.”

“Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.”

“Our blight is ide­olo­gies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!”

“During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.”