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
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.
below best engine looking looks might percent prefer
The way it's looking right now, our engine might be one percent below our specifications, but still be the best engine ever done. We prefer not to...but it looks like we may be one percent low.
engineering magic world
Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.
inspirational kids engineering
To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games. Nothing like saving the world.
inspirational engineering cfo
The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.
father engineering physics
My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.
inspirational engineering problem
I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.
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.
confidence left shortcuts stone
I think I can say with confidence that we've left no stone unturned. We've made no shortcuts in development. We've done everything we can.
happiness happy launch sign soon
that are happy to sign up as soon as they see a launch that works.
address jump particular point problem simply
We are not simply going to address this particular point problem and then merrily jump back into a countdown sequence.
samurai failing commit
My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.
heart thinking matter
I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
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.