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
real law support
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.
needs tesla energy
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.
apples rockets cases
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.
thinking yield generations
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.
executing falcon fire perfectly until
Falcon was executing perfectly on all fronts until fire impaired the first-stage pneumatic system.
best engine failures history numerous occurred program recently
To the best of my knowledge, every booster engine qualification program in history has had numerous failures of the kind that recently occurred with Merlin, so this is not unusual.
samurai failing commit
My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.
heart thinking matter
I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
cut few run
We're not going to cut and run if we have a few issues. We're not going to cut and run if we have a lot of issues. We're going to see this through.
business familiar launch scrubs
Those familiar with the launch business will know that countdown scrubs are a way of life.
chamber fail
We did have an ablative chamber fail during the Merlin qualification program.
people
Here in the West, people often don't like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.
considered few granted hundred magic people seem talk transmit vast
If you go 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.
billion consciousness four half human maybe quite
From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. A little light just went on after four and a half billion years. How often does that happen? Maybe it is quite rare.