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
struggle problem
When you struggle with a problem, that's when you understand it.
running ideas waiting
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.
land mars done
Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.
views tree advice
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.
inspirational lessons tough
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
company great-company products
Great companies are built on great products.
world needs figures
We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.
determination people innovation
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.
creativity broken design
Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
space fixers planets
It's a fixer-upper of a planet but we could make it work.
inspirational morning goal
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.
space long important
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.
nukes needs dangerous
We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes,
thinking levels foolish
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.