Elon Musk Quotes

I'm not a designer, I'm an inventor.

I'm an inventor.

In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

We should have more invention.

The way to solve problems in the world is to become scientists and technologists and build things that haven't been built before and discover things that people really don't know about.

Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade.

I'd like to be an inventor, as they look at the world in a different way and find solutions for making it better.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

My training and my inclination is to invent.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

This not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently, debate forcefully, and quote aptly.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

The engineer is the key figure in the material progress of the world. It is his engineering that makes a reality of the potential value of science by translating scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor to bring them to the service of man ... To make contribution of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social age understanding to bring his vision to reality

What man can imagine, man can do.

The core of what I do is solve problems, whether that's in graphic engine flow or rockets. I like working on things that are going to have an impact one way or the other.

If I look into my past, I was definitely into inventors. I was into stories of Edison and Tesla and da Vinci and all these guys making stuff in their garage.

I want to involve creativity more in technology and business. It is obvious that for us to be successful, a healthy relationship with creativity is needed.

The fact is that creativity is everywhere. It's just about the way that you look at things.