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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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Elon Musk
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 28
Actor
Aerospace Engineer
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Pretoria
South Africa
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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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As a child I would just question things.
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Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
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My motivation for all my companies has been to be involved in something that I thought would have a significant impact on the world.
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Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
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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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So, there's quite a big keep-out zone, and when you factor the keep-out zone into account, the solar panels put on that area would typically generate more power than that nuclear power plant.
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I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.
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What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn't there, we'd be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.
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The first step is to establish that something is possible then probability will occur.
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I think you should always be seeking negative feedback.
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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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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 just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.
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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.
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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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Fear is a hard thing to deal with. I feel it quite strongly. If I think something is important enough, I'll make myself do it in spite of fear. But it can really sap the will. I hate fear, I wish I had it less.
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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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Optimism, pessimism, f**k that we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.
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Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.
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