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Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.
Elon Musk
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Elon Musk
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 28
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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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Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
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I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple's product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium.
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The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries.
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In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business.
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I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.
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The rumours of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated.
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Don't be afraid of new arenas.
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Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.
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Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing you know that you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve.
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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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What I'm trying to do is to maximise the probability of the future being better.
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Humans need to be a multiplanet species.
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Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.
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There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.
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Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.
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As a child I would just question things.
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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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I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
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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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