Elon Musk
Elon Musk
Elon Reeve Muskis a South African-born Canadian-American business magnate, engineer and inventor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth28 June 1971
CityPretoria, South Africa
CountryUnited States of America
billion design jet mind planes took vertical
Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.
consider fact sign signing strongly
I know for a fact that there are more than a half-a-dozen customers...not that they will sign up but they'll strongly consider signing up and probably will sign up at some point, even if it's not immediately.
anyone billion creating government means monopoly opposed realistic saving
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.
changing cycle energy moving
the Internet; changing the energy cycle from petroleum-based to solar-electric; and moving into space.
airplane building definitely entire expensive factory imagine integrated single split transport
is analogous to building part of an airplane in a factory and part of the airplane on the runway. You can imagine that's a pretty expensive way to split the construction so the fact that we can just do the entire integrated rocket, transport it as a single unit, that definitely reduces costs.
earliest expect full ground including late launch occur review software support third vehicle
We will also do another full review of all the vehicle systems, including propulsion, structures, avionics, software and ground support systems. Therefore, I expect that the earliest that launch would occur is late January. Third time's the charm.
thinking important done
I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.
developing sort
We're developing two engines. These are state-of-the-art, world-class, world-beating engines. These are not just sort of ho-hum engines.
best engine failures history numerous occurred program recently
To the best of my knowledge, every booster engine qualification program in history has had numerous failures of the kind that recently occurred with Merlin, so this is not unusual.
years majority
I'm extremely confident that solar will be at least a plurality of power, and most likely a majority... in less than 20 years.
inspirational success crazy
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
inspirational crush mean
Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you'll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it's twice the efficiency of a Prius.
kids responsibility ideas
I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I've got kids and responsibilities, so I can't be my own test pilot. That wouldn't be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it's a sensible thing to do.
giving-up persistence important
Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.