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What is it REALLY like to be Elon Musk?
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His beliefs on God...
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Happy New Year to everyone working toward an exciting future!
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"I was just absolutely obsessed with Truth. The obsession with Truth is why I studied Physics, because physics attempts to understand the Truth of the universe. Physics is just what are the provable truths of the universe & truths that have predictive power."
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“I am a strong believer in doing the reality of good over the perception of good. So we're just gonna take the heat. If we know we're gonna get sued despite doing the right thing, we will do the right thing and get sued.”
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"Would be great if someone could compile a game contest of who said the craziest stuff between 4chan and WEF! My money is on the latter."
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“I lived in the Fremont and Nevada factories for three years. I was running around like a manic trying to fix the production line. I slept on the floor so the teams didn’t think I lived in an ivory tower.”
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"Perhaps more people might consider loving humanity.
Our collective light of consciousness is a tiny candle in a vast darkness. Please do not let it go out."
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[on early Tesla days] “I went down to zero cash or sellable assets in 2008/2009, had no house & had to borrow money from friends to pay rent.”
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“As long as there is not something that is causing an error in the pricing system, as there is because of the unpriced externality which is the CO2 capacity of the oceans and atmosphere, the market system works very well.”
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“The Starship fleet is designed to achieve over 1000 times more payload to orbit than all other rockets on Earth combined.
Almost no one understands this.”
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I would like to write a book on Elon's wisdom and knowledge. (
@elonmusk
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Would this book be useful to you?
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“A major part of real-world AI has to be solved to make unsupervised, generalized full self-driving work, as the entire road system is designed for biological neural nets with optical imagers.”
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“Most people have no idea Starship exists or how large this beast is!
Body diameter (9m or 30 ft) is bigger than a 747 or A380. Starship thrust & mass are more than double Saturn V moon rocket.
Making life multiplanetary means massive rockets. Got to be done.”
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[discussing company culture at Tesla] “Everyone eats same food, uses same restrooms, etc – no executive chef or other ivory tower stuff.
There shouldn’t be this workers vs management two-class system. Everyone is a worker.”
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"The far right and the far left will splinter off Twitter to irrelevant echo chambers."
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"Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy."
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"I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means"
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mars book is nearing completion.
@elonmusk
’s wisdom changed my (Mack Moderie) life and I wanted to give back by building a distilled collection of his knowledge.
Hopefully you will find the content just as useful as I did.
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"I'm head engineer and chief designer as well as CEO [at SpaceX], so I don't have to cave to some money guy. I encounter CEOs who don't know the details of their technology and that's ridiculous to me.”
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“Such a privilege to work with people I like & respect so much. I feel blessed.”
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“If heat death is the end of the universe, it really is all about the journey.”
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“The whole notion of being “left wing” or “right wing” is silly.
Almost no one initially agrees with the semi-random collection of policies associated with each wing.
They only support those policies *after* they join the left or right mind tribe.”
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"Let’s make Twitter maximum fun!"
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“The limbic instinct for vengeance is incredibly strong, which is why turn the other cheek is such a powerful idea.
As it ends the cycle of retribution.”
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"The woke mind virus is penetrating the firewalls of some of the world’s smartest meat computers at a prodigious rate!"
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“I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.”
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"Ya know, it’s pretty damn great to be able to talk to people from all walks of life and many countries on Twitter!
So much to be learned, even from the harshest critics.
Basically … I’m just saying I love all you crazy people ♥️♥️"
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"There is so much potential with Twitter to be the most trusted & broadly inclusive forum in the world!"
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"A big part of the problem is that journalists used to choose their career to pursue truth, but in recent years many have entered journalism to be activists."
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Where will we be in another 21 years?
Mars perhaps…
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“Am thinking of starting new university:
Texas Institute of Technology & Science”
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“I think it's possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.”
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“US national debt is ~$28,900 billion or ~$229k per taxpayer.
Even taxing all “billionaires” at 100% would only make a small dent in that number, so obviously the rest must come from the general public. This is basic math.
Spending is the real problem.”
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[on AI] "The ratio of total digital to total biological compute is the key metric to watch – it is rising incredibly fast."
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“The duty of a leader is to serve their people, not for the people to serve them.”
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"My biggest mistake is probably weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart."
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“Only the heart senses beauty.”
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"Starship is extremely fundamental. So, the holy grail of rocketry or space transport is full and rapid reusability. This has never been achieved.
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“We don’t really patent things, I don’t care about patents. At Tesla we open sourced all our patents, anyone can use them.”
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“Will visit IRS next time I’m in DC just to say hi, since I paid the most taxes ever in history for an individual last year. Maybe I can have a cookie or something …”
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“The sun is absurdly, overwhelmingly the source of energy in our solar system.
Doesn’t even need maintenance – just works!”
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"I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right."
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“Socialism vs capitalism is not even the right question. What really matters is avoiding monopolies that restrict people’s freedom.”
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"The woke mind virus is penetrating the firewalls of some of the world’s smartest meat computers at a prodigious rate!"
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“People do not think critically enough. Critical thinking is a skill in short supply. People assume too many things to be true without sufficient basis in that belief.
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[on woke Disney nonsense] "Walt Disney is turning in his grave faster than a drill bit."
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"Jesus taught love, kindness and forgiveness.
I used to think that turning the other cheek was weak & foolish, but I was the fool for not appreciating its profound wisdom."
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"Transparency is the key to trust."
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"Anyone who maims children should go to prison for life. This shouldn’t even need to be said."
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"Two of the worst possible curses:
- You will live forever
- You can have anything you want"
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“I will not let you down, no matter what it takes.”
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“On Twitter, likes are rare & criticism is brutal. So hardcore. It’s great.”
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"Disney has a major content problem. Almost their entire upcoming slate is unwatchable. They are the world's biggest example go woke, go broke."
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“Human are absurdly concentrated on a tiny percentage of Earth’s surface. That’s why people in cities think Earth is “full” of people, when in fact it is basically empty.”
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“Physics should be taught with the majesty & beauty it deserves”
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Soon people will be putting Christmas trees up on Mars!
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“I was at a lunch with Munger in 2009 where he told the whole table all the ways Tesla would fail.
Made me quite sad, but I told him I agreed with all those reasons & that we would probably die, but it was worth trying anyway.”
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“So strange that people often believe things inversely proportionate to the evidence. Given a set of possible explanations, why pick the extremely unlikely one!?”
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“The failures are mine, the successes belong to others.”
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“I always try to reserve time for my kids because I love hanging out with them. Kids are really great."
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“A lot of people think I’m a fan of disruption, but I’m not really a fan of disruption. I am just a fan of things being better.”
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“Open your eyes, look up to the skies.”
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“The internet has been the biggest equalizer in history in terms of access to information and knowledge.”
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“Some people have this absurd view that the economy is some magic horn of plenty, like it just makes stuff... Let me just break it to the fools out there: If you don't make stuff, there's no stuff.”
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@elonmusk
...you can make CH4 methane, and O2 oxygen on Mars... The fuel is a simple fuel that is easy to create on Mars and in many other parts of the solar system... It's all propulsive landing, no parachutes, nothing thrown away.
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"The Constitution is greater than any President. End of story."
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"I meet so many people who read twitter every day, but almost never tweet.
If I may beg your indulgence, please add your voice to the public dialogue!"
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“I do so wish that more companies would put down their spreadsheets for a moment and focus on making products that move your heart.”
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“It shouldn't be that you got these grades where people move in lockstep and everyone goes through English, Math, Science, and so forth from 5th grade to 6th grade to 7th grade like it's an assembly line. People are not objects on an assembly line.”
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“I swear my responsibility to the highest good for consciousness, while always re-examining what the highest good is.”
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"My strong intuitive sense is that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization."
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"Education is the path out of poverty and Internet access enables education."
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“The most remarkable thing that we do have today is the internet and access to all the world's information from anywhere.”
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“Rules and regulations are immortal. And if we keep making more every year, and do not do something about removing them, then eventually we’ll be able to do nothing.”
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Excited to announce the launch of my new book on
@elonmusk
: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mars
What’s inside?
-42 Principles for Life
-600+ insightful quotes
-42 interesting stories (practical applications) from his life
-And much more…
Get it now:
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“I do try my hardest to be good and sometimes I fear that untrue negative stories about me may cause others to excuse their bad behavior to their conscience, because they think I’m doing it too, but I’m not!”
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“I certainly have lost many battles. So far, I have not lost a war, but I've certainly lost many battles... More than I can count, probably.”
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“I try not to pick fights, but I do finish them”
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"Politics is war and truth is the first casualty."
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"You wanna get up in the morning & be excited about the future. I'm trying my hardest to build a good future for the humanity. I love humanity & we should fight for a good future for humanity. We should be optimistic about the future"
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"I do agree with Peter [Thiel]’s point that a university education is often unnecessary… Because you can always buy the textbooks and just read them. No one is stopping you from doing that…”
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"Many go woke for the moral cloak."
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"Down the road, I'd love to work on something, which is a vertical takeoff and landing supersonic electric jet, and leverage what I've learned from SpaceX and from Tesla to try to make that happen.”
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“Generally, I’m a fan of minimal government interference in the economy. The government should be the referee… not the player.”
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“Don’t want to brag but … I’m the best at humility.”
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"Tesla is to protect life on Earth,
SpaceX to extend life beyond."
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"You wanna get up in the morning and be excited about the future. We should fight for the things that make us excited about the future. It cannot just be about solving one sad problem after another."
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“I never wanted to be CEO – just wanted to work on product/technology...
Running companies hurts my heart, but I don’t see any other way to bring technology & design to fruition.”
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“Even if you're the best of the best there’s always a chance of failure so I think it’s important that you really like whatever you're doing. If you don’t like it, life is too short.”
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“I wouldn’t say I’m fearless. I feel fear quite strongly, but if what I’m doing is important enough, I just override the fear.”
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"Easy to fool people, but it is almost impossible to convince people that they have been fooled."
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"Some of the happiest seeming people are actually some of the saddest people in reality."
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"I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself."
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