South African - Businessman | June 28, 1971 -
Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It's hard to break into a network once it's formed.
Elon Musk
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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.
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I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.
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I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax.
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I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.
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I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.
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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.
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I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.
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Here in the West, people often don't like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.
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A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.
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I'm trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.
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So we originally expected to make about 35 gigawatt hours at the cell level and about 50 gigawatt hours at the module or pack level. Now we are expecting to do about 150 gigawatt hours in the same volumetric space as the original design.
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