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Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.

Elon Musk

The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it’s going to become multiplanetary, or it’s going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there’s going to be an extinction event.
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Direction Event Eventually Extinction Future Human Planet
That’s my lesson for taking a vacation: vacation will kill you.
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Entrepreneur Kill Lesson Vacation
I read books and talked to people. I mean that’s kind of how one learns anything. There’s lots of great books out there & lots of smart people.
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Book Reading
Government isn’t that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you’ve got to have commercial companies do it.
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Advance Company Government Research Technology
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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Business Cake Company Creation Entrepreneur Ingredient Proportion
I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.
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Business Company Ideas Planning
Fear is a hard thing to deal with. I feel it quite strongly. If I think something is important enough, I’ll make myself do it in spite of fear. But it can really sap the will. I hate fear, I wish I had it less.
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Deal Enough Fear Important Quite Strong
I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
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Die Humour ImpAction Mars
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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Advice Business Constant Improvement Success
As a child I would just question things.
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Children Inspirational Knowledge Learning
The only reason I was able to accomplish things is the great people willing to work with me.
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Acomplishment Business Entrepreneur People Reason Work
Getting there was super hard. Very proud of Tesla team!
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Appreciation Entrepreneur Proud Team Work
Don’t be afraid of new arenas.
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Afraid Arena Inspirational One Liner
Talent is extremely important. It’s like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there’s a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ.
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Employee Extreme Important Individual Player Strategy Talent Win
I’ve actually not read any books on time management.
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Book Management Reading Time
If humanity doesn’t land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
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Disappointment Hope Human Lifetime Mars

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