Elon Musk
Entrepreneur
1971-06-28
Businessman and entrepreneur known for leadership roles at Tesla and SpaceX. He previously co-founded X.com, which became part of PayPal, and later acquired Twitter, rebranding it as X. His ventures focus on electric vehicles, aerospace, and related technology sectors.
Books by Elon Musk
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Welcome to the Future Which Is Mine
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Quotes by Elon Musk
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I could go and buy one of the islands in theBahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom, but I am much more interested in trying to build andcreate a new company.
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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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I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I just try to think about the future and not be sad
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It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.
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I could go and buy one of the islands in theBahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom, but I am much more interested in trying to build andcreate a new company.
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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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It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.
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I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I just try to think about the future and not be sad
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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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I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.
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I think there should be regulations on social media to the degree that it negatively affects the public good.
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Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.
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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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I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.
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Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
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If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.
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I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.
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I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.
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We're already cyborgs. Your phone and your computer are extensions of you, but the interface is through finger movements or speech, which are very slow.
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There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.
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