Elon Musk

There's a graveyard of prior attempts, a big graveyard. There's probably some freshly dug graves just waiting to be filled. Our aspiration is to avoid that destination.

The pace of progress in artificial intelligence (I’m not referring to narrow AI) is incredibly fast. Unless you have direct exposure to groups like Deepmind, you have no idea how fast—it is growing at a pace close to exponential.

There is nothing inherently expensive about rockets. It's just that those who have built and operated them in the past have done so with horrendously poor efficiency.