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" I've actually not read any books on time management. "
Elon Musk
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" We polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. That's pretty telling. "
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" The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries. "
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" If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me. "
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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. "
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" I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company. "
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" Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that. "
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" SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete. "
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" You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place. "
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" If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure. "
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" If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion. "
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" Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive. "
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" If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman. "
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" A utility can handle up to 20% of production from solar and that helps the grid because it produces electricity when needed. Solar power peaks in the middle of the day and that's also when air conditioning is running and businesses are operating, so power production matches usage. "
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" 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. "
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" In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution. "
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" I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side. "
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" The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad. "
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" When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked. "
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" The goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we're going to take a step back and think about what's most likely to achieve that goal. "
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" Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world. "
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" I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google. "
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" Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business. "
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" I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least. "
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