Quotes About Tesla

#1. I'm more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what's going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities.

Lana Del Rey

#2. When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome.

Elon Musk

#3. 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.

Jason Calacanis

#4. I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla.

David Lynch

#5. Is there any good news?' Tesla said.
Who ever promised that? Who ever said there'd be good news?

Clive Barker

#6. Celibacy is the Tesla family secret, passed down through the
generations."
"Celibacy, passed down through the generations?"Victor asked dryly.
I flushed. "Its efficacy is not disproved by its imperfect application,"
I muttered.

Vinnie Tesla

#7. Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

Larry Page

#8. Zip2, PayPal, Tesla, SolarCity - they are all expressions of Musk. SpaceX is Musk.

Ashlee Vance

#9. drove his new customized Tesla

Clive Cussler

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

Elon Musk

#11. Tesla, at least, seemed perfectly satisfied with what he had achieved in Colorado. He had made lightning dance at his command; he had used the whole Earth as a piece of laboratory equipment; and he had received messages from the stars. Now he was in a hurry to get on with the future.

Margaret Cheney

#12. A Model S can recharge 150 miles of range in 20 minutes at one of Tesla's charging stations with DC power pumping straight into the batteries. By comparison, a Nissan Leaf that maxes out at 80 miles of range can take 8 hours to recharge.

Ashlee Vance

#13. Faraday has the Cage, Tesla has the Coil and Magee has the Sandwich!

Steven Magee

#14. Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.

Eddie Trunk

#15. The reason that the company decided to invest in Tesla was not to target a profit gain. We did it as a means to further a partnership between the companies.

Takeshi Uchiyamada

#16. The development of Nikola Tesla's ideas by corporate governments has created a sick and dangerous world.

Steven Magee

#17. We polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. That's pretty telling.

Elon Musk

#18. 1908: A massive explosion over Tunguska, Siberia, leveled sixty to eighty million trees over 2,150 square kilometers. Blamed on an asteroid or comet, or Nikola Tesla's Coil. The Bermuda Triangle J

Catherine Coulter

#19. Throughout these early years, the engineers credited Eberhard with making quick, crisp decisions. Rarely did Tesla get hung up overanalyzing a situation. The company would pick a plan of attack, and when it failed at something, it failed fast and then tried a new approach. It

Ashlee Vance

#20. I'm not the sort of fellow who does the same thing all the time. I began using a lot of science fiction apparatus. I came out with the atom bomb two years before it was actually used because I read in the paper that a fellow named Nicola Tesla was working on the atom bomb.

Jack Kirby

#21. A bunch of Tesla employees wrote checks to keep the company going,

Ashlee Vance

#22. Columbus has the standing egg, Tesla has the electromagnetic egg and Magee has the irradiated egg.

Steven Magee

#23. Well, my motivation behind Tesla is really to do as much good as possible for the environment and the electric-vehicle revolution. I think there is still a lot of work to do and if we were to sell to a big company, I'm not sure it would progress at the same pace.

Elon Musk

#24. I had a Tesla. I was one of the first cats with a Tesla. But I'm telling you, I've been on the side of the road a while in that thing.

George Clooney

#25. For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it's been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I'd just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

Elon Musk

#26. My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent.

Elon Musk

#27. Tesla already has its sights set on producing a large-volume electric vehicle in three years or so.

Anonymous

#28. He (Tesla) was 84, and he died in a hotel, completely broke and alone. In love with a pigeon. This is a nightmare. I'm in hell. This is hell. I'm talking about Tesla in my puke. Tesla was the electric Jesus. I can't breathe.

Duncan Trussell

#29. All scientific men will be delighted to extend their warmest congratulations to Tesla and to express their appreciation of his great contributions to science.

Ernest Rutherford

#30. Tesla once stated, instinct is something which transcends knowledge. "Anton,

James Rollins

#31. Along with showcasing the Model S, the Tesla stores sold hoodies and hats and had areas in the back where kids would find crayons and Tesla coloring books.

Ashlee Vance

#32. Tesla is becoming a real car company.

Elon Musk

#33. I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.

Elon Musk

#34. At one point, the software declared that each Roadster should cost about $68,000, which would leave Tesla making about $30,000 per vehicle. Everyone knew the figure was wrong, but it got reported to the board anyway.

Ashlee Vance

#35. Even if there's a zombie apocalypse, you'll still be able to travel using the Tesla Supercharging system.

Elon Musk

#36. Nikola Tesla Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century

Sean Patrick

#37. Tesla might not have invented a machine for going back in time, but Griffin thought he'd just found a way to stop it.

Kady Cross

#38. do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success. - NIKOLA TESLA, 1896, INVENTOR OF ALTERNATING CURRENT

Ray Kurzweil

#39. Jules Breton has spoken of the history of his life as being at the same time the genesis of his art. This is true of Nikola Tesla's evolution. His bent toward invention we may surely trace to his mother, who, as the wife of an eloquent clergyman in the Greek Church, made

Nikola Tesla

#40. In 1892, mine owner L. L. Nunn had hired the electrical wizard Nikola Tesla to build the world's first alternating-current power

Clive Cussler

#41. I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google.

Elon Musk

#42. Eberhard had come up with the name Tesla Motors, both to pay homage to the inventor and electric motor pioneer Nikola Tesla and because it sounded cool.

Ashlee Vance

#43. The goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we're going to take a step back and think about what's most likely to achieve that goal.

Elon Musk

#44. The overarching goal of Tesla is to help reduce carbon emissions and that means low cost and high volume. We will also serve as an example to the auto industry, proving that the technology really works and customers want to buy electric vehicles.

Elon Musk

#45. The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.

Edwin Howard Armstrong

#46. Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner, but you need the production of energy in a sustainable manner.

Elon Musk

#47. When he returned to the Iron Man production office, Downey asked that Favreau be sure to place a Tesla Roadster in Tony Stark's workshop.

Ashlee Vance

#48. declared Tesla as the true "father of radio.

Sean Patrick

#49. If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.

Nikola Tesla

#50. Awakening Call: You're Not in love if it carries a burden.

Brook Tesla

#51. Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?

Nikola Tesla

#52. We should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.

Nikola Tesla

#53. The entire Earth will be converted into a huge brain

Nikola Tesla

#54. The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

Nikola Tesla

#55. You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

Nikola Tesla

#56. Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.

Nikola Tesla

#57. There is scarcely a subject that cannot be mathematically treated and the effects calculated or the results determined beforehand from the available theoretical and practical data.

Nikola Tesla

#58. There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.

Nikola Tesla

#59. In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

Nikola Tesla

#60. As I review the events of my past life I realize how subtle are the influences that shape our destinies.

Nikola Tesla

#61. Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

Nikola Tesla

#62. antisocial behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world of conformists.

Nikola Tesla

#63. I am even grateful to Einstein and others because through their erroneous theories they lead mankind away from that dangerous path I followed.

Nikola Tesla

#64. Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them.

Nikola Tesla

#65. I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.

Nikola Tesla

#66. I come from a very wiry and long-lived race. Some of my ancestors have been centenarians, and one of them lived 129 years. I am determined to keep up the record and please myself with prospects of great promise. Then again, nature has given me a vivid imagination.

Nikola Tesla

#67. I'm running out of mind.

Lena Karynn Tesla

#68. I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it.

Nikola Tesla

#69. War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live.

Nikola Tesla

#70. We are just waves in time and space, changing continuously, and the illusion of individuality is produced through the concatenation of the rapidly succeeding phases of existence. What we define as likeness is merely the result of the symmetrical arrangement of molecules which compose our body.

Nikola Tesla

#71. The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.

Nikola Tesla

#72. Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered as an ideal man of science, had said so and if that was the case, I felt that I should concentrate on some big idea.

Nikola Tesla

#73. Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.

Nikola Tesla

#74. Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are rarefied. To reach a number of miles out into space requires the overcoming of difficulties of a merely mechanical nature.

Nikola Tesla

#75. What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.

Nikola Tesla

#76. When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts.

Nikola Tesla

#77. Of the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents.

Nikola Tesla

#78. I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear.

Nikola Tesla

#79. A lesser man might have begrudged
him that, but remembering the old adage, "The finder's goods shall
he retain / Nor mind the loser's dreadful pain," I rejoiced, rather, in his good
fortune.

Vinnie Tesla

#80. From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

Nikola Tesla

#81. We may produce at will, from a sending station. an electrical effect in any particular region of the globe; we may determine the relative position or course of a moving object, such as a vessel at sea, the distance traversed by the same, or its speed.

Nikola Tesla

#82. The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.

Nikola Tesla

#83. All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether

Nikola Tesla

#84. I am trying to awake the energy contained in the air. These are the main sources of energy. What is considered as empty space is just a manifestation of matter that is not awakened.

Nikola Tesla

#85. Of all things, I liked books best.

Nikola Tesla

#86. The day when we shall know exactly what electricity is will chronicle an event probably greater, more important than any other recorded in the history of the human race. The time will come when the comfort, the very existence, perhaps, of man will depend upon that wonderful agent.

Nikola Tesla

#87. Even matter called inorganic, believed to be dead, responds to irritants and gives unmistakable evidence of a living principle within. Everything that exists, organic or inorganic, animated or inert, is susceptible to stimulus from the outside.

Nikola Tesla

#88. The carrying out into practise of a crude idea as is being generally done is, I hold, nothing but a waste of energy, money and time. My

Nikola Tesla

#89. My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.

Nikola Tesla

#90. Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine

Nikola Tesla

#91. There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would be fortunate to achieve some of my ideals, it would be on the behalf of the whole of humanity.

Nikola Tesla

#92. The motors I build there were exactly as I imagined them. I made no attempt to improve the design, but merely reproduced the pictures as they appeared to my vision and the operation was always as I expected.

Nikola Tesla

#93. It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

Nikola Tesla

#94. Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves.

Nikola Tesla

#95. There is no subject more captivating, more worthy of study, than nature. To understand this great mechanism, to discover the forces which are active, and the laws which govern them, is the highest aim of the intellect of man.

Nikola Tesla

#96. Perhaps I failed, but I did my best, These masters of mine may do the rest.

Nikola Tesla

#97. The left hand holds the power of weakness; the right, the power of strength. I wish my actions to be ruled by the power of weakness, so I hold my staff in my left hand. You hold your scepters in the right hand; your actions are ruled by the power of strength. Of might. Of tyranny.

Lena Karynn Tesla

#98. My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it. It was too far ahead of time. But the same laws will prevail in the end and make it a triumphal success.

Nikola Tesla

#99. No rocket will reach the moon save by a miraculous discovery of an explosive far more energetic than any known. And even if the requisite fuel were produced, it would still have to be shown that the rocket machine would operate at 459 degrees below zero-the temperature of interplanetary space.

Nikola Tesla

#100. It is not by man's power that you are here, but by a greater Power. That Power will stay with you.

Lena Karynn Tesla