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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
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Pretoria
South Africa
Elon Reeve Musk
Elon R. Musk
Elon R Musk
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I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.
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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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When you struggle with a problem, that's when you understand it.
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Life is too short for long-term grudges.
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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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The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.
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Target launch date for Falcon I maiden flight is Halloween(October 31) from our island launch complex in the Kwajalein Atoll. For potential customers out there, I should mention that Kwajalein has some of the worlds best scuba diving and snorkeling! It is literally a tropical paradise.
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I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least.
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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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Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.
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What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn't there, we'd be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.
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I think you should always be seeking negative feedback.
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An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.
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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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