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

Elon Musk

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Elon Musk
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 28
Actor
Aerospace Engineer
Engineer
Entrepreneur
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Investor
Programmer
Pretoria
South Africa
Elon Reeve Musk
Elon R. Musk
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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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Life is too short for long-term grudges.
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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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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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There's nothing - I've bought everything I want. I don't like yachts or anything you know, I'm not a yacht person, and I've got pretty much the nicest plane I'd want to have.
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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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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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What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.
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Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.
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The first step is to establish that something is possible then probability will occur.
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I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.
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Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.
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You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.
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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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