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Elon Musk

Elon Musk

South African Businessman

Born: Jun 28, 1971

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I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people. Elon Musk

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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. Elon Musk

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I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least. Elon Musk

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We could definitely make a flying car - but that's not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that's super safe and quiet? Because if it's a howler, you're going to make people very unhappy. Elon Musk

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If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way. And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations. Elon Musk

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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. Elon Musk

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Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business - I'd say, number one is have a high pain threshold. Elon Musk

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I have made the mistaken assumption - and I will attempt to be better at this - of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake. Elon Musk

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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. Elon Musk

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I do think there should be some regulations on AI. Elon Musk

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Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that. Elon Musk

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I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple's product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium. Elon Musk

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do. Elon Musk

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I like the word 'autopilot' more than I like the word 'self-driving.' 'Self-driving' sounds like it's going to do something you don't want it to do. 'Autopilot' is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars. 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. Elon Musk

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