Elon Musk Quotes
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Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
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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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So even if a fire develops, it can't really attack the particularly vulnerable locations like the pneumatic system or the avionics or the engine bay. We want to be in the situation that even if a fire develops, the rocket just keeps going.
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We could figure out ways with small aerospace companies to do a low-cost spacecraft and lander. But we could not find a way to do a low-cost launcher, unless we went to the Russians.
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I've actually not read any books on time management.
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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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It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
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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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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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I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
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I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.
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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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Even if there's a zombie apocalypse, you'll still be able to travel using the Tesla Supercharging system.
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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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Well, I have tried to learn as much as possible from prior attempts.
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I think that is a mistake and results in cloudy judgment on important technical issues. They can't tell if something is really good or not, so they just do what everyone else does, assuming it to be the safe bet.
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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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Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.
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I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool.
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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 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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I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.
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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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I’m nauseatingly pro-American. It is where great things are possible.