Elon Musk Quotes
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What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.
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There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.
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It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
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I could either watch it happen, or be part of it.
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Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
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The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it's going to become multiplanetary, or it's going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there's going to be an extinction event.
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There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.
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In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.
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I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.
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I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.
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You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.
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My approach is simply to seek out very talented people, ensure that the environment at SpaceX is as motivating & enjoyable as possible and establish clear & measurable objectives.
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I've actually not read any books on time management.
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To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games - nothing like saving the world.
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There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.
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We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.
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The heroes of the books I read, The Lord of the Rings and the Foundation series, always felt a duty to save the world.
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When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.
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People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
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You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.
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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.
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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.
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I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing of just using other people's money. I don't think that's right. I'm not going to ask other people to invest in something if I'm not prepared to do so myself.
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I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool.