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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
I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.
Elon Musk
Independent
Strongly
Democratic
Moderate
Republican
Registered
Personally
In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.
Elon Musk
Death
Great
History
Great Deal
High
Rate
Days
Deal
Experimentation
Aviation
Early
Early Days
If you're entering anything where there's an existing marketplace, against large, entrenched competitors, then your product or service needs to be much better than theirs. It can't be a little bit better, because then you put yourself in the shoes of the consumer... you're always going to buy the trusted brand unless there's a big difference.
Elon Musk
Service
Buy
Needs
You
Yourself
Better
Big
Shoes
Unless
Marketplace
Bit
Entering
Entrenched
Consumer
Put
Because
Always
Big Difference
Existing
Trusted
Brand
Than
Going
Difference
Where
Anything
Against
Little
Little Bit
Then
Much
Product
Your
Large
Competitors
I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.
Elon Musk
Life
Problems
Think
Earth
Must
Solving
About
Something
More
Inspiring
Got
Than
Just
Even
I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I've got kids and responsibilities, so I can't be my own test pilot. That wouldn't be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it's a sensible thing to do.
Elon Musk
Good
Pilot
Space
Fly
Own
Definitely
Kids
Responsibilities
Would
Would-Be
My Own
Risky
Absolutely
Idea
Soon
Like
Got
Test
Test Pilot
Just
Want
Sensible
Personally
Used
Cool
Now
Thing
Things
Good Idea
The X is an amazing car, but we kind of got carried away with the art and technology. Obviously, you want great art. You want great technology. But we did get a little distracted from our mission, which was to advance the cause of electric vehicles. And it probably delayed us a little bit with the Model 3 as well.
Elon Musk
Art
Great
You
Technology
Cause
Amazing
Car
Great Art
Our
Bit
Carried
Distracted
Kind
Delayed
Advance
Vehicles
Mission
Obviously
Well
Got
Model
Get
Did
Want
Which
Little
Little Bit
Us
Electric
Away
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.
Elon Musk
Work
You
Technology
Business
Work Hard
New Things
Think
Other
Valley
Way
Destroyed
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Some
High-Tech
Developing
New
Industry
Doing
Very
Quickly
Improve
Get
Move
Either
Product
Your
Used
Hard
Company
Things
The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we'd never have had the light bulb.
Elon Musk
You
Light
Space
Example
Experiment
Case
Something
Attempt
Never
Had
Light Bulb
Failed
Make
Greater
Does
Bulb
Goal
Often
Space Shuttle
Used
Even
Why
Shuttle
If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they've done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.
Elon Musk
Progress
Path
Half
Francisco
Run
Would
Would-Be
Above
High-Speed
Could
Shanghai
Had
California
Well
Least
Line
Done
Just
San
San Francisco
China
Notch
Straight
Milk
Rail
I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.
Elon Musk
Competitor
See
Born
Brought
New
California
Because
Came
New Technologies
Viable
Africa
Where
Fruition
Really
Technologies
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.
Elon Musk
Mind
Big
Design
Jet
Took
Would
Would-Be
Pretty
Percent
Years
Vertical
Efficiency
Improve
Improvement
Just
Lame
Planes
Really
Billion
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