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What I'm trying to do is to maximise the probability of the future being better.

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Elon Musk
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 28
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Aerospace Engineer
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Pretoria
South Africa
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I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.
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I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.
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I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.
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As a child I would just question things.
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The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.
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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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