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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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Elon Musk
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 28
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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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If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.
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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 first step is to establish that something is possible then probability will occur.
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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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It was obvious to me that we could never colonize Mars without reusability, any more than America would have been colonized if they had to burn the ships after every trip.
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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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I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool.
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Does the logic connect? What are the range of probably outcomes? You want to figure out what those probabilities are and ideally be the House. It's fine to gamble, as long as you're the House. Also, listen to critical feedback, particularly from friends. Generally they will be thinking it but they won't tell you.
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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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Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
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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’m nauseatingly pro-American. I would have come here from any country. The U.S. is where great things are possible.
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I think there are too many smart people pursuing internet stuff, finance, and law. That is part of the reason why we haven't seen as much innovation.
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Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.
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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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You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.
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There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.
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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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Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.
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