I don't think I've ever been personally fulfilled performing. It's kind of a challenging thing; it's more of a sacrifice for the people that I love.

I don't have a message. You already have all these people telling you how to live, who to be, what to wear, what to drive, what drugs to do - I just want people to see what I see.

I live to die; better that than to live a lie.

You have to be able to differentiate between the different areas of life. It shows that we're all separate people, we're all different, but we're all the same.

As a living, breathing person, you must love things that derive from nature.

The world sucks, man. But Tesla does have a mid-size sedan now, and that's very important to the future.

School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for.

I feel like it's impossible to be completely yourself, because you'll always get bored; you have to push your own limits.

I'm getting old! My back hurts, I got asthma, I just been listening to Amy Winehouse, trying not to cry. Life's crazy.

When I was a kid if you didn't have "Lil" in front of your name, you were trash.

If you're a voice for a community, then you're a voice for something more than yourself. I want to have an impact, because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.

Even though I am a mathematician, I look at [fetal development] with marvel: How do these instruction sets not make mistakes as they build what is us?

I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you can't catch it.

Just relief of trying to get there for eight years. It's finally here and I'm very excited. It's just great. It's been a long ride.

I'm no quitter, unless it comes to human relationships or math and science.

I consider myself the luckiest man in the world. I have spent a lifetime doing what I love.

I don't think people believe that any more, I don't think people think that it really matters whether you appreciate Henry James more than Theodore Dreiser.

In short, software is eating the world

Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?

You can be for something and still be damaged by it.

Never mind what I told you - you do as I tell you.