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“The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way” (Jones, 2014).”
― Cynthia A. Parker, Master of Electricity - Nikola Tesla: A Quick-Read Biography About the Life and Inventions of a Visionary Genius

“Keeping our lovely Camry going was costing us about $1500/year in maintenance and another $1000 in fuel costs. So that’s about $2500 per year in additional cost. By 2015, the Camry we’d paid $28k for had now cost us $33k. (We still own it today, though we’re driving it a lot less. In 2018, the total cost is up to about $40k, close to half the cost of our dream Model S.)”
― Pati Nagle, The Tesla Diaries: Adventures in Owning an Electric Car

“Musk asked me to dinner to negotiate. Eighteen months earlier, I’d informed him of my plans to write a book about him. He’d informed me of his plans not to cooperate and do interviews for the book.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Young Readers' Edition

“Now, all of this happened without Autopilot, because we had decided against buying it when we were designing the car. We apparently weren’t alone in that, because in May, we got a message from Tesla offering us a one-month free trial of Autopilot. Want to taste the Koolaid? The first cup is free...”
― Pati Nagle, The Tesla Diaries: Adventures in Owning an Electric Car