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My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.

Elon Musk

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Elon Musk
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 28
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Pretoria
South Africa
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If you go back back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.
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