Elon Musk
Elon Musk
Elon Reeve Muskis a South African-born Canadian-American business magnate, engineer and inventor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth28 June 1971
CityPretoria, South Africa
CountryUnited States of America
independent republican democratic
I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.
real airplane opportunity
There's a real opportunity to have a vertical takeoff and landing electric supersonic jet.
analogies firsts principles
I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.
needs looks mars
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.
running atmosphere environmental
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.
dna errors trying
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.
believe thinking people
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.
innovation united-states culture
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.
space interest solar-power
If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.
optimistic united-states century
I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least.
heat pot planets
As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot.
moon important earth
The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.
people want passionate
You want to do things you’re passionate about but also are useful to other people.
thinking negative feedback
I think you should always be seeking negative feedback.