When Musk writes "We are going to find a way or make a way to get there" he echoes this quote attributed in Latin to Hannibal: "Aut viam inveniam, aut faciam" (

When Musk writes "We are going to find a way or make a way to get there" he echoes this quote attributed in Latin to Hannibal: "Aut viam inveniam, aut faciam" (I will find a way, or make one) when his generals told him it was impossible to cross the Alps by elephant. It was used as a motto by Francis Bacon.