Franz von Holzhausen Quotes

If I were to point to the person who's having the greatest impact... I'd point to Elon Musk.

This is the age of disruption.

We drive a Tesla.

Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.

You don't have to be a spiritual seeker, you can be a businessman dealing with the revolution in computers. You could be a congressman, or a scientist. No matter what area of life and endeavor we are in we are seeing the signs of new-paradigm thinking.

I became convinced that the whole essence of the computer revolution is interactivity. That was very early in my career. At the time I did that it was heresy.

And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years.

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.

Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

The reason I bought the Tesla was to help fund the Model S - and because I like things that are fast, sexy and high-tech.

It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can't be the cutting edge for change.

... science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.

If you want to really change something, do not try to fight the existing reality. create a new reality.

The X is an amazing car, but we kind of got carried away with the art and technology. Obviously, you want great art. You want great technology. But we did get a little distracted from our mission, which was to advance the cause of electric vehicles. And it probably delayed us a little bit with the Model 3 as well.

The blockchain is going to change everything more than the Internet has.

My goal isn't to be one of the best; it's to change the game, to change the way things work.