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„Holy flying fuck, that thing took off!“
„I like to be involved in things that change the world. The Internet did, and space will probably be more responsible for changing the world than anything else. If humanity can expand beyond the Earth, obviously that’s where the future is.“
„Every person in your company is a vector. Your progress is determined by the sum of all vectors.“
„AI is much more advanced than people realize. … Humanity’s position on this planet depends on its intelligence so if our intelligence is exceeded, it’s unlikely that we will remain in charge of the planet.“
„Since our primary competitors [in space launch] are national governments, the enforceability of patents is questionable.“
„It’s so insane the way rockets work today. It would be like if you got a plane and the way you get to your destination is you bail out with a parachute over the city in question and your plane crash lands somewhere. That’s how rockets work today—with the exception of Falcon 9. This is completely bonkers.“
„”People tend to think like, ‘Why should electric vehicles have a subsidy,’ but they’re not taking into account that all fossil fuel-burning vehicles fundamentally are subsidised by the cost—the environmental cost—to Earth, but nobody’s paying for it… We are going to pay for it, obviously—in the future we’ll pay for it. It’s just not paid for now.”—Elon Musk“
„I believe there’s some explanation for this universe, which you might call God.“
„One thing that is important is that, if you have a choice between a lower valuation with someone you really like, or higher valuation with someone you have a question mark about, take the lower valuation.“
„We have planes, trains, automobiles and boats, … What if there was a fifth mode?“
„I think there are probably too many smart people pursuing Internet stuff, finance, and law, that is part of the reason why we haven’t seen as much innovation.“
„Everything works in PowerPoint; but if you have the physical item or some demonstration software, that’s much more convincing to people than a PowerPoint presentation or a business plan.“
„People should be travelling to Mars and doing it in our lifetime.“
„If we can build something that is capable of taking people and equipment to Mars, such that it can service a transportation infrastructure for humanity becoming a multi- planet species – which I think is a very, very important objective – then I would consider the mission of SpaceX successful, at that point.“
„In terms of the Internet, it’s like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a… collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It’s a hugely impactful thing.“
„I think there is a strong humanitarian argument for making life multi-planetary in order to safeguard the existence of humanity in the event that something catastrophic were to happen.“
„I could either watch it happen, or be part of it.“
„SpaceX’s got 5,000 people. I get a lot of attention, but they are really doing the work.“
„So, I think the best analogy for rocket engineers, if you want to create complicated software, you can’t run as an integrated whole, or run on the computer it’s intended to run on, but, first time you run it, it has to run with no bugs. That’s the essence of it. So … we missed the mark there.“
„There is nothing inherently expensive about rockets. It’s just that those who have built and operated them in the past have done so with horrendously poor efficiency.“
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