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Elon Musk

American

June 28, 1971

Businessman

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The factory is the machine that builds the machine.

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Life is too short for long-term grudges.

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I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.

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I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

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My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

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Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

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When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

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I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.

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I'm trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.

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I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

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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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Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

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If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.

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I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least.

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I usually describe myself as an engineer; that's basically what I've been doing since I was a kid.

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In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.

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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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I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.

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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's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

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It is theoretically possible to warp spacetime itself, so you're not actually moving faster than the speed of light, but it's actually space that's moving.

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People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.

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Even if producing CO2 was good for the environment, given that we're going to run out of hydrocarbons, we need to find some sustainable means of operating.

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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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The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

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The U.S. automotive industry has been selling cars the same way for over 100 years, and there are many laws in place to govern exactly how that is to be accomplished.

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I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.

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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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My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars - this is very important - so you don't have to carry the return fuel when you go there.

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A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery.

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Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.

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So we originally expected to make about 35 gigawatt hours at the cell level and about 50 gigawatt hours at the module or pack level. Now we are expecting to do about 150 gigawatt hours in the same volumetric space as the original design.

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We could definitely make a flying car - but that's not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that's super safe and quiet? Because if it's a howler, you're going to make people very unhappy.

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It's obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient way to use cellulose is to burn it in a co-generation power plant. That will yield the most energy and that is something you can do today.

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The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.

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If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along. Anything that breaks it at any point stops that growth.

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A utility can handle up to 20% of production from solar and that helps the grid because it produces electricity when needed. Solar power peaks in the middle of the day and that's also when air conditioning is running and businesses are operating, so power production matches usage.

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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. 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 there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don't believe in climate change - they think oil will last forever.

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