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1:I would rather commit seppuku than fail ~ Elon Musk,

2:I dont think there is one[a secret], but I work a lot. ~ Elon Musk,

3:I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad. ~ Elon Musk,

4:I guess ill have to start a company, cause I cant get a job anywhere ~ Elon Musk,

5:I think we should take the set of actions that are most likely to make the future better, and then reevaluate those actions to make sure that its true. ~ Elon Musk, Joe Rogan Experience 1169,

6:With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon. Didn't work out. ~ Elon Musk,

7:Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you're putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you're doing the same thing you know that... you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve. ~ Elon Musk,

8:I almost? had some slight existential crisis, cause I was trying to figure out what does it all mean? what is the purpose of things? I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world, if we can do things that expand the scope and scale of consciousness then were better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened and thats really the only way forward ~ Elon Musk,

9:Elon Musks Reading List J. E. Gordon - Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down Walter Isaacson - Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Walter Isaacson - Einstein: His Life and Universe Nick Bostrom - Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies Erik M. Conway & Naomi Oreskes - Merchants of Doubt William Golding - Lord of the Flies Peter Thiel - Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future Isaac Asimov - The Foundation Trilogy ~ Elon Musk, CNBC.html">CNBC ,

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1:Don't be afraid of new arenas. ~ Elon Musk

2:If you need inspiration, don't do it. ~ Elon Musk

3:As a child I would just question things. ~ Elon Musk

4:Humans need to be a multiplanet species. ~ Elon Musk

5:Life is too short for long-term grudges. ~ Elon Musk

6:I would rather commit seppuku than fail    ~ Elon Musk,

7:Great companies are built on great products. ~ Elon Musk

8:I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact. ~ Elon Musk

9:I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure. ~ Elon Musk

10:Any product that needs a manual to work is broken. ~ Elon Musk

11:I could either watch it happen or be a part of it. ~ Elon Musk

12:For my part, I will never give up, and I mean never. ~ Elon Musk

13:I think it matters whether someone has a good heart. ~ Elon Musk

14:I've actually not read any books on time management. ~ Elon Musk

15:America is the spirit of human exploration distilled. ~ Elon Musk

16:Many things are improbable, only a few are impossible. ~ Elon Musk

17:My family fears that the Russians will assassinate me. ~ Elon Musk

18:I think you should always be seeking negative feedback. ~ Elon Musk

19:As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot. ~ Elon Musk

20:With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon. ~ Elon Musk

21:I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company. ~ Elon Musk

22:I dont think there is one[a secret], but I work a lot.    ~ Elon Musk,

23:It's a fixer-upper of a planet but we could make it work. ~ Elon Musk

24:You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases. ~ Elon Musk

25:Actively seek out and listen carefully to negative feedback. ~ Elon Musk

26:Constantly think about how you could be doing things better. ~ Elon Musk

27:I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad.    ~ Elon Musk,

28:That's my lesson for taking a vacation: vacation will kill you. ~ Elon Musk

29:When you struggle with a problem, that's when you understand it. ~ Elon Musk

30:It is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary. ~ Elon Musk

31:Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world. ~ Elon Musk

32:My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars. ~ Elon Musk

33:Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson. ~ Elon Musk

34:I guess ill have to start a company, cause I cant get a job anywhere    ~ Elon Musk,

35:I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration. ~ Elon Musk

36:Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution. ~ Elon Musk

37:I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary. ~ Elon Musk

38:No, I don't ever give up. I'd have to be dead or completely incapacitated ~ Elon Musk

39:You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve ~ Elon Musk

40:Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done. ~ Elon Musk

41:My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail. ~ Elon Musk

42:We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes. ~ Elon Musk

43:I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool. ~ Elon Musk

44:No I don't ever give up. I would have to be dead or completely incapacitated ~ Elon Musk

45:If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me. ~ Elon Musk

46:If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things. ~ Elon Musk

47:You should be innovating so fast that you're invalidating your prior patents. ~ Elon Musk

48:If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed. ~ Elon Musk

49:The key test for an acronym is to ask whether it helps or hurts communication. ~ Elon Musk

50:You should take the approach that you’re wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong. ~ Elon Musk

51:Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death. ~ Elon Musk

52:Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time ~ Elon Musk

53:We are the biological bootloader for AI, effectively. ~ Elon Musk, Human Civilization and AI

54:We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world. ~ Elon Musk

55:What I'm trying to do is to maximise the probability of the future being better. ~ Elon Musk

56:For me it was never about money, but solving problems for the future of humanity. ~ Elon Musk

57:If something is important enough, you do it even if the odds aren't in your favor. ~ Elon Musk

58:I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything. ~ Elon Musk

59:You want to do things you’re passionate about but also are useful to other people. ~ Elon Musk

60:Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough. ~ Elon Musk

61:I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done. ~ Elon Musk

62:The rumours of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated. ~ Elon Musk

63:When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world. ~ Elon Musk

64:When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor. ~ Elon Musk

65:The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species. ~ Elon Musk

66:The first step is to establish that something is possible then probability will occur. ~ Elon Musk

67:When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour. ~ Elon Musk

68:Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up. ~ Elon Musk

69:The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur. ~ Elon Musk

70:I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I just try to think about the future and not be sad ~ Elon Musk

71:If you're not concerned about AI safety, you should be. Vastly more risk than North Korea. ~ Elon Musk

72:Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment. ~ Elon Musk

73:There's a real opportunity to have a vertical takeoff and landing electric supersonic jet. ~ Elon Musk

74:It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket. ~ Elon Musk

75:It’s a combination. It’s a combination of electronics and biology. ~ Elon Musk, Human Civilization and AI

76:Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster. ~ Elon Musk

77:If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive. ~ Elon Musk

78:In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution. ~ Elon Musk

79:Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world. ~ Elon Musk

80:You shouldn't do things differently just because they're different. They need to be... better. ~ Elon Musk

81:If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure. ~ Elon Musk

82:I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad. ~ Elon Musk

83:I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view. ~ Elon Musk

84:I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email. ~ Elon Musk

85:I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380. ~ Elon Musk

86:I take the position that I'm always to some degree wrong, and the aspiration is to be less wrong. ~ Elon Musk

87:You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable. ~ Elon Musk

88:Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of what you're doing is as valuable as gold ~ Elon Musk

89:Every person in your company is a vector. Your progress is determined by the sum of all vectors.   ~ Elon Musk

90:Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do. ~ Elon Musk

91:There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering. ~ Elon Musk

92:Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian. ~ Elon Musk

93:Most people can learn a lot more than they think they can. They sell themselves short without trying. ~ Elon Musk

94:Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car. ~ Elon Musk

95:Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives. ~ Elon Musk

96:Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you’re doing is as valuable as gold. ~ Elon Musk

97:If I were to point to the person who's having the greatest impact... I'd point to Elon Musk. ~ Joseph Gordon Levitt

98:Even if there's a zombie apocalypse, you'll still be able to travel using the Tesla Supercharging system. ~ Elon Musk

99:I think it would be great to be born on Earth and die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact. ~ Elon Musk

100:The tough thing is figuring out what questions to ask, but […] once you do that, the rest is really easy. ~ Elon Musk

101:Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It's hard to break into a network once it's formed. ~ Elon Musk

102:They were building a Ferrari for every launch, when it was possible that a Honda Accord might do the trick. ~ Elon Musk

103:I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia. ~ Elon Musk

104:I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican. ~ Elon Musk

105:If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive. ~ Elon Musk

106:People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else. ~ Elon Musk

107:If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not. ~ Elon Musk

108:The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff. ~ Elon Musk

109:I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least. ~ Elon Musk

110:I’m nauseatingly pro-American. I would have come here from any country. The U.S. is where great things are possible. ~ Elon Musk

111:Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there. ~ Elon Musk

112:Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry. ~ Elon Musk

113:Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars. ~ Elon Musk

114:The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries. ~ Elon Musk

115:I don't think very highly of Henrik Fisker. [...H]e thinks the reason we don't have electric cars is for lack of styling ~ Elon Musk

116:You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse. ~ Elon Musk

117:Weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart. ~ Elon Musk

118:In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization. ~ Elon Musk

119:I really like computer games, but then if I made really great computer games, how much effect would that have on the world. ~ Elon Musk

120:If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion. ~ Elon Musk

121:Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work. ~ Elon Musk

122:You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it. ~ Elon Musk

123:I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems. ~ Elon Musk

124:I'm extremely confident that solar will be at least a plurality of power, and most likely a majority... in less than 20 years. ~ Elon Musk

125:Elon Musk, in Trump Tower, pitched Trump on the new administration’s joining him in his race to Mars, which Trump jumped at. ~ Michael Wolff

126:We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun, you don't have to do anything, it just works. It shows up every day. ~ Elon Musk

127:I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. ~ Elon Musk

128: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. ~ Elon Musk

129:I think, best-case scenario: we effectively merge with AI, where AI serves as a tertiary cognition layer. ~ Elon Musk, Human Civilization and AI

130:My motivation for all my companies has been to be involved in something that I thought would have a significant impact on the world. ~ Elon Musk

131:When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked. ~ Elon Musk

132:I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself. ~ Elon Musk

133: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. ~ Elon Musk

134:A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage. ~ Elon Musk

135:Tesla burns cash. It's not a car company, it's a cult of fanatics who think Elon Musk can do no wrong. But financially, it doesn't work. ~ Bob Lutz

136: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. ~ Elon Musk

137:Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive. ~ Elon Musk

138:One of the biggest mistakes we made was trying to automate things that are super easy for a person to do, but super hard for a robot to do. ~ Elon Musk

139:One of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask. Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy. ~ Elon Musk

140:I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system. ~ Elon Musk

141: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. ~ Elon Musk

142:The primary means of energy generation is going to solar. It will at least be a plurality, and probably be a slight majority in the long term. ~ Elon Musk

143:I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them. ~ Elon Musk

144: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. ~ Elon Musk

145:You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place. ~ Elon Musk

146:I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. ~ Elon Musk

147:No one has any idea what's going to happen. Not even Elon Musk. That's why he's building those rockets. He wants a 'Plan B' on another world. ~ Stephen Colbert

148: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. ~ Elon Musk

149:You could argue that any group of people, like a company, is essentially a cybernetic collective of people and machines. ~ Elon Musk, Human Civilization and AI

150:I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA. ~ Elon Musk

151: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. ~ Elon Musk

152:Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good. ~ Elon Musk

153: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. ~ Elon Musk

154:Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell. ~ Elon Musk

155:Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner but you need the production of energy in a sustainable manner. ~ Elon Musk

156:People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working. ~ Elon Musk

157:People will buy the car just because it's a great car. We want them to think it's excellent value for money and then, oh yeah, it happens to be electric. ~ Elon Musk

158:Even if producing CO2 was good for the environment, given that we're going to run out of hydrocarbons, we need to find some sustainable means of operating. ~ Elon Musk

159:It's just mind-blowingly awesome. I apologize, and I wish I was more articulate, but it's hard to be articulate when your mind's blown-but in a very good way. ~ Elon Musk

160:My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent. ~ Elon Musk

161:And we need things in life that are exciting and inspiring. It can't just be about solving some awful problem. There have to be reasons to get up in the morning. ~ Elon Musk

162:When people really understand it's do or die [and] if we work hard and pull through, it's going to be a great outcome; people will give it everything they've got. ~ Elon Musk

163:In almost any industry, if you're passionate about doing a great job and making people that buy your product or service as happy as possible, it's really fulfilling. ~ Elon Musk

164:If you're co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do. If you don't do your chores, the company won't succeed. No task is too menial. ~ Elon Musk

165:I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric. ~ Elon Musk

166:This question came from Elon Musk near the very end of a long dinner we shared at a high-end seafood restaurant in Silicon Valley. I’d gotten to the restaurant first ~ Ashlee Vance

167:SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete. ~ Elon Musk

168:The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design. ~ Elon Musk

169:I could go and buy one of the islands in the Bahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom, but I am much more interested in trying to build and create a new company. ~ Elon Musk

170: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. ~ Elon Musk

171: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. ~ Elon Musk

172:We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe. ~ Elon Musk

173:I always see what’s... wrong. Would you want that? When I see a car or a rocket or spacecraft, I only see what’s wrong. I never see what’s right. It’s not a recipe for happiness. ~ Elon Musk

174:We have a strict 'no a-hole policy' at SpaceX. And we fire people they are. I mean, we give them a little bit of warning. But if they continue to be an a-hole, then they're fired. ~ Elon Musk

175:I think we should take the set of actions that are most likely to make the future better, and then reevaluate those actions to make sure that its true. ~ Elon Musk, Joe Rogan Experience, 1169,

176:People often mistake technology for a static picture. It's less like a picture and more like a movie. It's the velocity of technology innovation that matters. It's the acceleration. ~ Elon Musk

177:I'm increasingly inclined to think there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level just to make sure that we don't do something very foolish. ~ Elon Musk

178:I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved. ~ Elon Musk

179: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. ~ Elon Musk

180: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. ~ Elon Musk

181: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. ~ Elon Musk

182:The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor. ~ Elon Musk

183: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. ~ Elon Musk

184:Going from PayPal, I thought: 'Well, what are some of the other problems that are likely to most affect the future of humanity?' Not from the perspective, 'What's the best way to make money?' ~ Elon Musk

185: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. ~ Elon Musk

186:Elon Musk convenció a la NASA para que firmara contratos por valor de 1.000 millones de dólares para reemplazar su viejo transbordador espacial por el moderno diseño de la nueva nave de SpaceX. ~ Peter Thiel

187:When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome. ~ Elon Musk

188:It's really incumbent upon us as life's agents to extend life to another planet. I think that being a multi-planet species will significantly increase the richness and scope of the human experience. ~ Elon Musk

189:My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars - this is very important - so you don't have to carry the return fuel when you go there. ~ Elon Musk

190:Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product. ~ Elon Musk

191:I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google. ~ Elon Musk

192:Every mode of transport that we use - whether it's planes, trains, automobiles, bikes, horses - is reusable, but not rockets. So we must solve this problem in order to become a space-faring civilization. ~ Elon Musk

193:My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me. ~ Elon Musk

194:The idea of lying on a beach as my main thing just sounds like the worst. It sounds horrible to me. I would go bonkers. I would have to be on serious drugs. I'd be super-duper bored. I like high intensity. ~ Elon Musk

195:The idea of lying on a beach as my main thing just sounds like the worst. It sounds horrible to me. I would go bonkers. I would have to be on serious drugs. I’d be super-duper bored. I like high intensity. ~ Elon Musk

196:The idea of lying on a beach as my main thing just sounds like the worst — it sounds horrible to me. I would go bonkers. I would have to be on serious drugs. I’d be super-duper bored. I like high intensity. ~ Elon Musk

197:With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon. Didn't work out. ~ Elon Musk

198: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. ~ Elon Musk

199:The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it's going to become multiplanetary, or it's going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there's going to be an extinction event. ~ Elon Musk

200:With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon. Didn't work out. ~ Elon Musk,

201:Talent is extremely important. It's like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there’s a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ. ~ Elon Musk

202: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. ~ Elon Musk

203:Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups. ~ Elon Musk

204:A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery. ~ Elon Musk

205:Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement. ~ Elon Musk

206:I think that's an important thing to do, to really pay attention to negative feedback, and solicit it, particularly from friends. This may sound like simple advice, but hardly anyone does that, and it's incredibly helpful. ~ Elon Musk

207:You can just reload, propel it and fly again. This is extremely important for revolutionizing access to space because as long as we continue to throw away rockets and space crafts, we will never truly have access to space. ~ Elon Musk

208:Elon Musk argued that what we need right now from governments isn’t oversight but insight: specifically, technically capable people in government positions who can monitor AI’s progress and steer it if warranted down the road. ~ Max Tegmark

209:I mean, I think that if people are concerned about volatility, they should definitely not buy our stock. I’m not here [on an earnings call] to convince you to buy [Tesla] stock. Do not buy it if volatility is scary. There you go. ~ Elon Musk

210: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. ~ Elon Musk

211:The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we'd never have had the light bulb. ~ Elon Musk

212:You could power the entire United States with about 150 to 200 square kilometers of solar panels, the entire United States. Take a corner of Utah... there's not much going on there, I've been there. There's not even radio stations. ~ Elon Musk

213:To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games. Nothing like saving the world. ~ Elon Musk

214:I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably that. So we need to be very careful...With artificial intelligence we're summoning the demon. ~ Elon Musk

215:There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions. ~ Elon Musk

216:For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it's been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I'd just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times. ~ Elon Musk

217:It's obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient way to use cellulose is to burn it in a co-generation power plant. That will yield the most energy and that is something you can do today. ~ Elon Musk

218: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. ~ Elon Musk

219:I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing tht makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment. ~ Elon Musk

220:It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don't think it's possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car. ~ Elon Musk

221:I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment. ~ Elon Musk

222:In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business. ~ Elon Musk

223:The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative. ~ Elon Musk

224:To our knowledge, life exists on only one planet, Earth. If something bad happens, it's gone. I think we should establish life on another planet-Mars in particular-but we 're not making very good progress. SpaceX is intended to make that happen. ~ Elon Musk

225:The overarching goal of Tesla is to help reduce carbon emissions and that means low cost and high volume. We will also serve as an example to the auto industry, proving that the technology really works and customers want to buy electric vehicles. ~ Elon Musk

226:One bit of advice: 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. ~ Elon Musk

227:Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business. ~ Elon Musk

228:I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company. ~ Elon Musk

229:I want to make rockets 100 times, if not 1,000 times better. The ultimate objective is to make humanity a multiplanet species. Thirty years from now, there'll be a base on the moon and on Mars, and people will be going back and forth on SpaceX rockets. ~ Elon Musk

230:I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing of just using other people's money. I don't think that's right. I'm not going to ask other people to invest in something if I'm not prepared to do so myself. ~ Elon Musk

231:There's a fundamental difference, if you sort of look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilization, that's out there exploring the stars...compared with one where we are forever confined to Earth until some eventual extinction event. ~ Elon Musk

232:It is despairing to consider that the cost and reliability of access to space have barely changed since the Apollo era over three decades ago. Yet in virtually every other field of technology, we have made great strides in reducing cost and increasing capability. ~ Elon Musk

233:Well, my motivation behind Tesla is really to do as much good as possible for the environment and the electric-vehicle revolution. I think there is still a lot of work to do and if we were to sell to a big company, I'm not sure it would progress at the same pace. ~ Elon Musk

234:The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable. ~ Elon Musk

235:Don’t just follow the trend. You may have heard me say that it’s good to think in terms of the physics approach of first principles. Which is, rather than reasoning by analogy, you boil things down to the most fundamental truths you can imagine and you reason up from there. ~ Elon Musk

236:The thing that's worth doing is trying to improve our understanding of the world and gain a better appreciation of the universe and not to worry too much about there being no meaning. And, you know, try and enjoy yourself. Because, actually, life's pretty good. It really is. ~ Elon Musk

237:I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don't believe in climate change - they think oil will last forever. ~ Elon Musk

238:There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness. ~ Elon Musk

239: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. ~ Elon Musk

240:I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I've got kids and responsibilities, so I can't be my own test pilot. That wouldn't be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it's a sensible thing to do. ~ Elon Musk

241:It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive. ~ Elon Musk

242: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. ~ Elon Musk

243: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. ~ Elon Musk

244:In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a [?], like a collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It's a hugely impactful thing. ~ Elon Musk

245: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. ~ Elon Musk

246:If you go back back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago. ~ Elon Musk

247:Like people including Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have predicted, I agree that the future is scary and very bad for people. If we build these devices to take care of everything for us, eventually they'll think faster than us and they'll get rid of the slow humans to run companies more efficiently. ~ Steve Wozniak

248:I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple's product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium. ~ Elon Musk

249:I've always wanted to be part of something that would radically change the world. . . . People forget the power of inspiration. All of humanity went to the moon with the Apollo missions. The issue was cost. There was no chance to build a base and create frequent flights. That's the problem I would like to solve. ~ Elon Musk

250: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. ~ Elon Musk

251:It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it's been possible, and that window could be open for a long time - hopefully it is - or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now. ~ Elon Musk

252:Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you'll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it's twice the efficiency of a Prius. ~ Elon Musk

253:The cortex is mostly in service to the limbic system. People may think that the thinking part of themselves is in charge, but it’s mostly their limbic system that’s in charge. And the cortex is trying to make the limbic system happy. That’s what most of that computing power is oriented towards. ~ Elon Musk, Human Civilization and AI

254:I always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out ‘what does it all mean?’ I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world, if we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, then, we’re better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened. That’s the only way to move forward. ~ Elon Musk

255:If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman. ~ Elon Musk

256: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. ~ Elon Musk

257:The biggest mistake, in general, I've made, is to put too much of a weighting on someone's talent and not enough on their personality. And I've made that mistake several times. I think it actually matters whether somebody has a good heart, it really does. I've made the mistake of thinking that it's sometimes just about the brain. ~ Elon Musk

258:Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing you know that you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve. ~ Elon Musk

259:I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It's a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that's what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is. ~ Elon Musk

260:The pace of progress in artificial intelligence (I'm not referring to narrow AI) is incredibly fast," wrote Musk in a private email .  Unless you have direct exposure to groups like Deepmind, you have no idea how fast — it is growing at a pace close to exponential. ~ Elon Musk Everbody Working Artificial Intelligence Knows Terminator Scenario

261:But there is now a degree to which you have to ask whether his success is an indictment on the rest of us who have been working on much more incremental things. To the extent that the world still doubts Elon, I think it's a reflection on the insanity of the world and not on the supposed insanity of Elon. - Peter Thiel on Elon Musk ~ Ashlee Vance

262:It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere. ~ Elon Musk

263:(Peter Thiel on Elon Musk) But there is now a degree to which you have to ask whether his success is an indictment on the rest of us who have been working on much more incremental things. To the extent that the world still doubts Elon, I think it's a reflection on the insanity of the world and not on the supposed insanity of Elon. ~ Ashlee Vance

264:Musk had never run a car factory before and was considered arrogant and amateurish by Detroit. Yet, one year after the Model S went on sale, Tesla had posted a profit, hit $562 million in quarterly revenue, raised its sales forecast, and become as valuable as Mazda Motor. Elon Musk had built the automotive equivalent of the iPhone. ~ Ashlee Vance

265:Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you're putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you're doing the same thing you know that... you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve.    ~ Elon Musk,

266:If I make $100,000 a year and Elon Musk makes $100,000,000 a year and we both see a doubling of our incomes, while I should be thrilled at my newfound fortune of $200,000, if I compare it to Musk’s massive $200,000,000, that comparative difference may feel worse, even though I’m better off and no one is worse off for the Tesla and SpaceX CEO’s fortune. ~ Michael Shermer

267:I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it's like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there. ~ Elon Musk

268:I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it’s like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there. ~ Elon Musk

269:Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology. ~ Elon Musk

270:If humanity is to become multi-planetary, the fundamental breakthrough that needs to occur in rocketry is a rapidly and completely reusable rocket … achieving it would be on a par with what the Wright brothers did. It’s the fundamental thing that’s necessary for humanity to become a space-faring civilization. America would never have been colonized if ships weren’t reusable. ~ Elon Musk

271:I think it's very easy for people who are not deep in the technology itself to make generalizations, which may be a little dangerous. And we've certainly seen that recently with Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking, all saying AI is just taking off and it's going to take over the world very quickly. And the thing that they share is none of them work in this technological field. ~ Rodney Brooks

272:I almost? had some slight existential crisis, cause I was trying to figure out what does it all mean? what is the purpose of things? I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world, if we can do things that expand the scope and scale of consciousness then were better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened and thats really the only way forward    ~ Elon Musk,

273:Soy obsesivo compulsivo por naturaleza. En lo relativo a ser un imbécil o a cagarla soy tan capaz como cualquier otro y de algún modo tengo la piel más dura gracias a todo el tejido cicatricial... lo que me importa es ganar, y no a pequeña escala. Dios sabe porqué... probablemente sea algo que se sustente en algún desagradable agujero negro psicoanalistico o en algún corto circuito neuronal --Elon Musk ~ Ashlee Vance

274:Let's think beyond the normal stuff and have an environment where that sort of thinking is encouraged and rewarded and where it's okay to fail as well. Because when you try new things, you try this idea, that idea... well a large number of them are not gonna work, and that has to be okay. If every time somebody comes up with an idea it has to be successful, you're not gonna get people coming up with ideas. ~ Elon Musk

275:The only reason I was able to accomplish things is the great people willing to work with me. A company is a group of people organized to create a product or service, and that product or service is only as good as the people in the company - and how excited they are about creating it. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. Without them, I would have accomplished very little. I just happen to be the face of the companies. ~ Elon Musk

276:Musk of PayPal, SpaceX, and Tesla Motors, a choice some readers protested. A conversation ensued online about what makes someone an inventor. You put Elon Musk at the top of the list of candidates for the greatest living inventor. You do not, however, mention a single invention credited to Mr. Musk. Nor are any such inventions mentioned in the various online biographies of Mr. Musk. Are you not confusing inventor with businessman? Peter Blau ~ Anonymous

277:It will enable anyone who wants to have superhuman cognition. Anyone who wants. This is not a matter of earning power because your earning power would be vastly greater after you do it. So, it’s just like: anyone who wants can just do it. In theory. That’s the theory. And if that’s the case, then—and let’s say billions of people do it—then the outcome for humanity will be the sum of human will. The sum of billions of people’s desire for the future. ~ Elon Musk, Human Civilization and AI

278:There’s sort of a collective AI in Google Search, where we’re all sort of plugged in like nodes on the network; like leaves on a big tree. And we’re all feeding this network with our questions and answers. We’re all collectively programming the AI. And Google, plus all the humans that connect to it, are one giant cybernetic collective. This is also true of Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, and all these social networks. They’re giant cybernetic collectives. ~ Elon Musk, Human Civilization and AI

279:Focus on something that has high value to someone else, be really rigorous in making that assessment, because natural human tendency is wishful thinking, so the challenge to entrepreneurs is telling what's the difference between really believing in your ideals and sticking to them as opposed to pursuing some unrealistic dream that doesn't actually have merit, be very rigorous in your self analysis, certainly being extremely tenacious, and just work like hell. Put in 80-100 hours every week. All these things improves the odds of success ~ Elon Musk

280:Elon Musks Reading List    J. E. Gordon - Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down    Walter Isaacson - Benjamin Franklin: An American Life    Walter Isaacson - Einstein: His Life and Universe    Nick Bostrom - Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies    Erik M. Conway & Naomi Oreskes - Merchants of Doubt    William Golding - Lord of the Flies    Peter Thiel - Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future    Isaac Asimov - The Foundation Trilogy    ~ Elon Musk, CNBC,

281:It’s pretty hard to get to another star system. Alpha Centauri is four light years away, so if you go at 10 per cent of the speed of light, it’s going to take you 40 years, and that’s assuming you can instantly reach that speed, which isn’t going to be the case. You have to accelerate. You have to build up to 20 or 30 per cent and then slow down, assuming you want to stay at Alpha Centauri and not go zipping past. It’s just hard. With current life spans, you need generational ships. You need antimatter drives, because that’s the most mass-efficient. It’s doable, but it’s super slow. ~ Elon Musk

282:Thought Leadership “Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future” Book by Ashlee Vance “Take risks now and do something bold. You won’t regret it.” - Elon Musk (CEO of SpaceX and Tesla) #smitanairjain #leadership #womenintech #thoughtleaders #tedxspeaker #technology #tech #success #strategy #startuplife #startupbusiness #startup #mentor #leaders #itmanagement #itleaders #innovation #informationtechnology #influencers #Influencer #hightech #fintechinfluencer #fintech #entrepreneurship #entrepreneurs #economy #economics #development #businessintelligence #business ~ Ashlee Vance

283:Christina Nichol describes a conversation with a young family member who works in tech, to whom she tried to describe the unprecedentedness of the threat from climate change, unsuccessfully. “Why worry?” he replies. “Technology will take care of everything. If the Earth goes, we’ll just live in spaceships. We’ll have 3D printers to print our food. We’ll be eating lab meat. One cow will feed us all. We’ll just rearrange atoms to create water or oxygen. Elon Musk.” Elon Musk—it’s not the name of a man but a species-scale survival strategy. Nichol answers, “But I don’t want to live in a spaceship.” He looked genuinely surprised. In his line of work, he’d never met anyone who didn’t want to live in a spaceship. ~ David Wallace Wells

284:At the Puerto Rico beneficial-AI conference mentioned in the first chapter, Elon Musk argued that what we need right now from governments isn’t oversight but insight: specifically, technically capable people in government positions who can monitor AI’s progress and steer it if warranted down the road. He also argued that government regulation can sometimes nurture rather than stifle progress: for example, if government safety standards for self-driving cars can help reduce the number of self-driving-car accidents, then a public backlash is less likely and adoption of the new technology can be accelerated. The most safety-conscious AI companies might therefore favor regulation that forces less scrupulous competitors to match their high safety standards. ~ Max Tegmark

285:THE RIVE BROTHERS used to be like a technology gang. In the late 1990s, they would jump on skateboards and zip around the streets of Santa Cruz, knocking on the doors of businesses and asking if they needed any help managing their computing systems. The young men, who had all grown up in South Africa with their cousin Elon Musk, soon decided there must be an easier way to hawk their technology smarts than going door-to-door. They wrote some software that allowed them to take control of their clients’ systems from afar and to automate many of the standard tasks that companies required, such as installing updates for applications. The software became the basis of a new company called Everdream, and the brothers promoted their technology in some compelling ways. ~ Ashlee Vance

286:This question came from Elon Musk near the very end of a long dinner we shared at a high-end seafood restaurant in Silicon Valley. I’d gotten to the restaurant first and settled down with a gin and tonic, knowing Musk would—as ever—be late. After about fifteen minutes, Musk showed up wearing leather shoes, designer jeans, and a plaid dress shirt. Musk stands six foot one but ask anyone who knows him and they’ll confirm that he seems much bigger than that. He’s absurdly broad-shouldered, sturdy, and thick. You’d figure he would use this frame to his advantage and perform an alpha-male strut when entering a room. Instead, he tends to be almost sheepish. It’s head tilted slightly down while walking, a quick handshake hello after reaching the table, and then butt in seat. From there, Musk needs a few minutes before he warms up and looks at ease. ~ Ashlee Vance

287:we can figure that out, including how to talk about it in a way that Americans will understand and support, that will be both good policy and good politics. There’s another angle to consider as well. Technologists like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Bill Gates, and physicists like Stephen Hawking have warned that artificial intelligence could one day pose an existential security threat. Musk has called it “the greatest risk we face as a civilization.” Think about it: Have you ever seen a movie where the machines start thinking for themselves that ends well? Every time I went out to Silicon Valley during the campaign, I came home more alarmed about this. My staff lived in fear that I’d start talking about “the rise of the robots” in some Iowa town hall. Maybe I should have. In any case, policy makers need to keep up with technology as it races ahead, instead of always playing catch-up. ~ Hillary Rodham Clinton

288:Airbus Group Ventures business to be led by Tim Dombrowski, a former partner of technology venture capital powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz. The unit’s mandate is to “invest in promising, disruptive and innovative business opportunities generated around the globe,” Airbus said on Friday. Paul Eremenko, who was director of engineering at Google’s secretive Advanced Technology and Projects organization and also worked for the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency technology incubator, will be chief executive of Airbus Group Silicon Valley technology and business innovation center, the company said. “Silicon Valley serves as a unique hub for technology breakthroughs and we see huge opportunities to learn from, and partner with the many players based there,” Airbus Chief Executive Tom Enders said in a statement. Mr. Enders has become concerned that newcomers to the industry may turn into formidable rivals to the European aerospace giant along with more traditional competitors such as Boeing Co. That’s already happening in space where entrepreneur Elon Musk’s space company, Space Exploration ~ Anonymous

289:For Elon Musk, this spectacle has turned into a familiar experience. SpaceX has metamorphosed from the joke of the aeronautics industry into one of its most consistent operators. SpaceX sends a rocket up about once a month, carrying satellites for companies and nations and supplies to the International Space Station. Where the Falcon 1 blasting off from Kwajalein was the work of a start-up, the Falcon 9 taking off from Vandenberg is the work of an aerospace superpower. SpaceX can undercut its U.S. competitors—Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Orbital Sciences—on price by a ridiculous margin. It also offers U.S. customers a peace of mind that its rivals can’t. Where these competitors rely on Russian and other foreign suppliers, SpaceX makes all of its machines from scratch in the United States. Because of its low costs, SpaceX has once again made the United States a player in the worldwide commercial launch market. Its $60 million per launch cost is much less than what Europe and Japan charge and trumps even the relative bargains offered by the Russians and Chinese, who have the added benefit of decades of sunk government investment into their space programs as well as cheap labor. The ~ Ashlee Vance

290:There needs to be an intersection of the set of people who wish to go, and the set of people who can afford to go...and that intersection of sets has to be enough to establish a self-sustaining civilisation. My rough guess is that for a half-million dollars, there are enough people that could afford to go and would want to go. But it’s not going to be a vacation jaunt. It’s going to be saving up all your money and selling all your stuff, like when people moved to the early American colonies...even at a million people you’re assuming an incredible amount of productivity per person, because you would need to recreate the entire industrial base on Mars. You would need to mine and refine all of these different materials, in a much more difficult environment than Earth. There would be no trees growing. There would be no oxygen or nitrogen that are just there. No oil.Excluding organic growth, if you could take 100 people at a time, you would need 10,000 trips to get to a million people. But you would also need a lot of cargo to support those people. In fact, your cargo to person ratio is going to be quite high. It would probably be 10 cargo trips for every human trip, so more like 100,000 trips. And we’re talking 100,000 trips of a giant spaceship...If we can establish a Mars colony, we can almost certainly colonise the whole Solar System, because we’ll have created a strong economic forcing function for the improvement of space travel. We’ll go to the moons of Jupiter, at least some of the outer ones for sure, and probably Titan on Saturn, and the asteroids. Once we have that forcing function, and an Earth-to-Mars economy, we’ll cover the whole Solar System. But the key is that we have to make the Mars thing work. If we’re going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation. That’s the next step. ~ Elon Musk

291:Before dinner on the last night, while the guys were on the deck drinking whiskey and talking about Elon Musk, Liz and I went on a walk and she told me about a dream she’d been fixating on, a dream about what happens after mothers die. “We are all in this place. All the mothers who had to leave early.” (I would repeat her unforgettable phrasing—had to leave early—to Edward as we went to sleep that night.) “It’s huge, big as an airplane hangar, and there are all these seats, rows and rows, set up on a glass floor, so all the moms can look down and watch their kids live out their futures.” How dominant the ache to know what becomes of our children. “There’s one rule: you can watch as much and as long as you want, but you can only intervene once.” I nodded, tears forming. “So I sat down. And I watched. I watched them out back by the pool, swimming with Andy, napping on a towel. I watched them on the jungle gym, walking Lambchop, reading their Lemony Snicket books. I watched Margo taking a wrong turn or forgetting her homework. I watched Dru ignoring his coach. I watched Gwennie logging her feelings in a journal. And every time I went to intervene, to warn one of the kids about something or just pick them up to hold them, a more experienced mother leaned across and stopped me. Not now. He’ll figure it out. She’ll come around. And it went on and on like that and in the end,” she said, smiling with wet eyes, “I never needed to use my interventions.” Her dream was that she had, in her too-short lifetime, endowed her children with everything they’d require to negotiate the successive obstacle courses of adolescence, young adulthood, and grown-up life. “I mean, they had heartaches and regret and fights and broken bones,” she said, stopping to rest. “They made tons of mistakes, but they didn’t need me. I never had to say anything or stop anything. I never said one word.” She put her arm through mine and we started moving again, back toward the house, touching from our shoulders to our elbows, crunching the gravel with our steps, the mingled voices of our children coming from the door we left open. ~ Kelly Corrigan

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