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Funded by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from the people. Sometimes people forget that that's really what occurs.

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Elon Musk
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 28
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Pretoria
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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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I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.
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We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.
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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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There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.
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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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It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will.
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You need to live in a dome initially but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on. ... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.
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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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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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