Elon Musk: 15 quotes from a follower of Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Elon Musk is an engineer-inventor, programmer, businessman, investor and the main romantic of our time. In this article, you will find Musk's vivid statements that help to better understand why he is called the heir to both Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci.

The bravest Silicon Valley entrepreneur, the founder of SpaceX, the co-founder of PayPal, the head of Tesla Motors and SolarCity, the "savior of humanity" - it's all about Elon Musk. All who worked closely with him note that their life was divided "before" and "after" Ilona. Yes, he is super-demanding, and not only towards others, he is rude, stubborn, withdrawn, does not recognize authorities, but he also loves to play computer games, read science fiction and dream of flying to Mars.

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The prospect of lying on the beach for most of my life sounds like a nightmare to me, like the worst thing that can happen. I would probably go crazy and start taking hard drugs. I would have died of melancholy. I love it when everything turns.

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I would not say that I feel fear less often than others. Actually, I would like to reduce the presence of this emotion in my life, because it distracts and drains the nervous system.

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Somewhere between twelve and thirteen, I had an existential crisis, I was trying to figure out if there was any meaning in life, why we were here, and all that jazz. I came to the conclusion: the best thing that can be done is to improve the scope and scale of consciousness and achieve higher insight, which, in turn, will allow us to ask more and more good questions, since it is obvious: the Universe is the answer, the main thing - ask the right question. It's all about the questions.

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It seems that these days many major newspapers are trying to answer one question: what is the worst thing that happened on Earth today?

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I think that people today are somehow too carried away by all kinds of Internet, finance and law. This is one of the reasons why we have little innovation.

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Money doesn't bother me. The entire system of monetary circulation is a series of interconnected heterogeneous databases.

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Sooner or later, we will have to either expand life beyond this blue and green ball, or die out.

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I always try to think through future events, try to predict them. I anticipate a chain of events, then analyze the errors and discrepancies between the prediction and the actual course of things, and try to minimize those errors. This is how it seems to me. I also think in terms of probability streams. There is a certain set of outcomes, the probabilities of these outcomes, and I want to be a winner in any scenario. So, although it does not always happen as you plan, if everything is calculated correctly, over time you will definitely move forward.

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I think that I devote enough time to work and children. But there is still a problem. I need to find a girlfriend. Here you should carve out some more time for this. Maybe even five to ten hours … how much time does a woman need a week? Maybe ten o'clock? What is the minimum? I do not know.

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Actually, I haven't read a single time management book.

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Many have an extreme bias against risk. Everyone is trying to optimize the skill of covering their own ass.

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I think more politicians are in favor of electric vehicles than against. There are still opponents among them, and, in my opinion, the reasons for this depend on the individual person, but in some cases people simply do not believe in change - they believe that there will always be oil.

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For us to have an interesting and inspiring future, in it we must become a civilization that conquers space.

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I predict with confidence that within 20 years, most new cars will be fully electric, and that this will happen even in 10 years, rather than 20.

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Where does innovative thinking come from? I think this is the attitude. We must decide: we will try to do it differently.

More quotes from public speeches, letters and interviews by Musk can be found in the book "Elon Musk: Never Give Up."