{"author":"Elon Musk","author_id":"Elon+Musk","total_quotes":106,"quotes":[{"text":"Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.","author":"Elon Musk","tags":["food","good","end "],"id":4191,"author_id":"Elon+Musk"},{"text":"We could definitely make a flying car - but that's not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that's super safe and quiet? Because if it's a howler, you're going to make people very unhappy.","author":"Elon Musk","tags":["flying","people","you "],"id":4791,"author_id":"Elon+Musk"},{"text":"I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.","author":"Elon Musk","tags":["travel","american","people "],"id":9649,"author_id":"Elon+Musk"},{"text":"I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company.","author":"Elon Musk","tags":["good","plan","company "],"id":9893,"author_id":"Elon+Musk"},{"text":"The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.","author":"Elon Musk","tags":["path","engineering","marketing "],"id":11921,"author_id":"Elon+Musk"},{"text":"If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way. And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations.","author":"Elon Musk","tags":["strange","look","you "],"id":12294,"author_id":"Elon+Musk"},{"text":"Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.","author":"Elon Musk","tags":["enlightenment","strive","sense "],"id":16808,"author_id":"Elon+Musk"},{"text":"I like the word 'autopilot' more than I like the word 'self-driving.' 'Self-driving' sounds like it's going to do something you don't want it to do. 'Autopilot' is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.","author":"Elon Musk","tags":["good","want","you "],"id":29022,"author_id":"Elon+Musk"},{"text":"I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.","author":"Elon Musk","tags":["creating","done","create "],"id":31027,"author_id":"Elon+Musk"},{"text":"The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.","author":"Elon Musk","tags":["smart","thinking","creative "],"id":51953,"author_id":"Elon+Musk"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":106,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}