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
cannot cures current genes identify needs next precisely somebody turned
With DNA, you have to be able to tell which genes are turned on or off. Current DNA sequencing cannot do that. The next generation of DNA sequencing needs to be able to do this. If somebody invents this, then we can start to very precisely identify cures for diseases.
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.
inspirational different needs
You shouldn't do things differently just because they're different. They need to be... better.
thinking needs existential
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.
running mean needs
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.
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.
world needs figures
We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.
nukes needs dangerous
We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes,
people needs alternatives
Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
needs species humans
Humans need to be a multiplanet species.
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.
executing falcon fire perfectly until
Falcon was executing perfectly on all fronts until fire impaired the first-stage pneumatic system.
developing sort
We're developing two engines. These are state-of-the-art, world-class, world-beating engines. These are not just sort of ho-hum engines.
billion design jet mind planes took vertical
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.