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Elon Musk
South African
Businessman
Born:
Jun 28
,
1971
Better
Car
People
Think
Will
You
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I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don't believe in climate change - they think oil will last forever.
Elon Musk
Change
Car
Will
Politicians
Believe
Think
Favor
Some
Cases
More
Varies
Climate
Climate Change
Still
Forever
Than
Person
Just
Depending
Oil
Against
Electric
Electric Cars
Reasoning
Last
The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.
Elon Musk
Needs
Path
Engineering
Design
Marketing
Through
Office
Department
CEO
Should
I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them.
Elon Musk
Facebook
Hate
Writing
Twitter
About
Both
Stuff
Am
Account
Familiar
Personal
Personal Stuff
Them
Page
Use
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.
Elon Musk
Car
Will
Made
States
Hybrid
New
Majority
Within
Years
Prediction
Mean
Electric
Fully
United
United States
Actually
Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.
Elon Musk
Space
Half
Mars
Ticket
Dollars
Done
Land
Million
Million Dollars
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.
Elon Musk
Fear
Nervous
Say
System
Distracting
Nervous System
Fact
Emotion
Like
Because
Very
Fries
Lack
In Fact
Less
For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it's been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I'd just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.
Elon Musk
Tough Times
You
Darkest
Tough
Thank You
Say
Several
Some
Through
Support
Supporters
Over
Like
Particularly
Tesla
Been
Years
Very
Times
Thank
Just
Much
Now
Deeply
Appreciate
It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don't think it's possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.
Elon Musk
Technology
Car
Chemistry
Think
Definitely
Possible
Absence
True
Make
Enabling
Cell
Electric
Electric Cars
Fundamental
Gasoline
Competitive
The rumours of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated.
Elon Musk
Rumours
Exaggerated
Demise
Industry
Greatly
Manufacturing
Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.
Elon Musk
Life
People
Better
Way
Seem
Better Life
Instagram
Like
Look
Particularly
Than
Much
Really
Basically
Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.
Elon Musk
Predict
Difficult
Software
Our
Case
Only
Like
Read
Understand
Errors
Very
Trying
Going
Riddled
Code
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.
Elon Musk
Needs
You
Generation
Somebody
Tell
Able
Genes
Identify
Off
Very
Cures
Diseases
Precisely
Current
Cannot
Which
Turned
Then
Next
Next Generation
Sequencing
Start
The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable.
Elon Musk
History
Will
Ocean
Too
Unless
Rapidly
Would
Mars
Crossed
Colonies
Never
Come
Been
Rockets
Ships
Revolutionary
American
Expensive
Breakthrough
Fully
Conquer
I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.
Elon Musk
Time
Problems
Engineering
Spend
Solving
About
My Time
Manufacturing
Things
We're already cyborgs. Your phone and your computer are extensions of you, but the interface is through finger movements or speech, which are very slow.
Elon Musk
You
Phone
Slow
Finger
Through
Computer
Very
Movements
Which
Interface
Your
Extensions
Speech
I think there should be regulations on social media to the degree that it negatively affects the public good.
Elon Musk
Good
Social Media
Degree
Think
Negatively
Affects
Public
Social
Public Good
Should
Regulations
Media
SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people.
Elon Musk
Technology
People
Old
Will
Significant
Thousands
Thousands Of People
Mars
Only
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Between
Perhaps
Opposed
Linear
Years
Improvement
Then
Should
Company
Base
Now
I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.
Elon Musk
Good
Before
More
Point
Retire
Because
Go
Than
Senile
Just
Want
Then
Damage
Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.
Elon Musk
Environmental
Good
Food
Natural
Enormous
Wilderness
Neither
Crops
End
Up
Either
Which
Ethanol
Require
Amount
Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you'll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it's twice the efficiency of a Prius.
Elon Musk
Love
You
Car
Will
Think
Way
Crush
Like
Likes
Well
Track
Yeah
Tesla
Efficiency
Handling
Oh
Just
Anyone
Happens
Mean
Fantastic
Then
Electric
Who
Porsche
Twice
Fast
Fast Cars
If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive.
Elon Musk
You
Technology
Phones
Beginning
Cell Phones
Think
Back
New
Always
New Technology
Cell
Any
Expensive
Really
Laptops
A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery.
Elon Musk
Challenge
Battery
Definition
Collection
Taking
Combining
Safely
Chemicals
Very
Cell
Cells
Little
Them
Large
Large Number
Number
I've been to Disneyland, like, 10 times. I'm getting really tired of Disneyland.
Elon Musk
Tired
Like
Been
Times
Getting
Really
Disneyland
I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.
Elon Musk
You
Physics
First
Analogy
Approach
Framework
Rather
Tend
Principles
Than
Teaches
Reason
Things
I've actually not read any books on time management.
Elon Musk
Time
Management
Books
Read
Time Management
Any
Actually
My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.
Elon Musk
Car
Too
Opinion
Go
Autonomous
Far
Fully
Bridge
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