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Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

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Elon Musk
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 28
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It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.
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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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Even if there's a zombie apocalypse, you'll still be able to travel using the Tesla Supercharging system.
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I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.
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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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I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.
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The tough thing is figuring out what questions to ask, but […] once you do that, the rest is really easy.
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Weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
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The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.
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I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380.
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I read books and talked to people. I mean that's kind of how one learns anything. There's lots of great books out there & lots of smart people.
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I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.
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SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.
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I want to make rockets 100 times, if not 1,000 times better. The ultimate objective is to make humanity a multiplanet species. Thirty years from now, there'll be a base on the moon and on Mars, and people will be going back and forth on SpaceX rockets.
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My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.
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There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.
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I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
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We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.
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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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Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.
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