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
inspirational technology impact
I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
creating sake done
I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
people needs alternatives
Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
horse technology order
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.
needs species humans
Humans need to be a multiplanet species.
risk trying covering
There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.
mean years car
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.
demon artificial-intelligence summoning
With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.
morning things-in-life awful
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.
father engineering physics
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.
car want rockets
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.
mean government people
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.
hard-work giving people
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.
inspirational eggs long
It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.