Elon Musk cytaty

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„Mogłem albo obserwować, jak to się dzieje, albo być tego częścią.”

„Myślę, że mamy obowiązek utrzymywać światło świadomości, aby mieć pewność, że będzie ono kontynuowane w przyszłości.”

„Myślę, że Afryka Południowa to wspaniały kraj.”

„… Planuję podróż na Marsa i uczynienie go moim domem.”

„Każda osoba w Twojej firmie jest wektorem. Twój postęp zależy od sumy wszystkich wektorów.”

„Dla mnie kluczową sprawą jest rozwój techniki, który umożliwiłby transport znacznej liczby ludzi i dużych ładunków na Marsa. Wyobrażam sobie kolonię na Czerwonej Planecie liczącą 80 tys. mieszkańców. (…) Ale oczywiście przez cały ten czas musimy płacić rachunki.”

„Ludzie powinni podróżować na Marsa i robić to za naszego życia.”

„Prawdopodobieństwo śmierci jest dość wysokie przy pierwszej [ludzkiej] misji”

„Musimy się dowiedzieć, jak mieć rzeczy, które kochamy, nie niszcząc przy tym świata.”

„Chciałbym umrzeć na Marsie; po prostu nie przy lądowaniu.”

„Wcześniej czy później musimy rozszerzyć życie poza naszą małą niebieską kulkę z błota - lub wyginąć.”

„Cóż, starałem się nauczyć najwięcej ile mogłem z wcześniejszych prób.”

„Myśl, jak wszystko zrobić lepiej, i poprawiaj sam siebie.”

„Fajnie byłoby umrzeć na Marsie, byle nie rozbić się przy podejściu do lądowania.”

„Nie musimy się spieszyć, ludzkość nie jest skazana na natychmiastową zagładę, nie sądzę, żeby koniec był bliski. Uważam jednak, że istnieje ryzyko groźnych wydarzeń. To trochę jak wykupienie polisy ubezpieczeniowej na samochód lub na życie. Człowiek nie robi tego dlatego, że jest przekonany, iż umrze następnego dnia, ale dlatego, że tak się może zdarzyć.”

„Hyperloop nie potrzebuje torów, nie ma się o co rozbić, jest zasilany energią ze słońca i 560 km pokona w pół godziny. (…) Możliwe, że przygotuję prototyp i przekażę go komuś innemu, bo muszę skupić się na pracach moich firm. (…) Nie zamierzam namawiać innych do inwestowania w coś, jeśli sam nie jestem na to gotowy. Nie zależy mi, aby zarobić na Hyperloop dużych pieniędzy. Mogę nie zarobić nic, ale chciałbym zobaczyć, jak działa alternatywna forma transportu.”

„SpaceX ma 5000 osób. Mi poświęca się wiele uwagi, ale to oni naprawdę wykonują pracę.”

„Jestem mdląco proamerykański. To miejsce, gdzie możliwe są wielkie rzeczy.”

„Mamy samoloty, pociągi, samochody i łodzie… Co jeśli byłby piąty tryb?”

„Nawet jeśli będzie apokalipsa zombie, nadal będziesz mógł podróżować używając systemu superładowania Tesli.”

„Ponieważ naszymi głównymi konkurentami [w kosmosie] są rządy krajowe, wykonalność patentów jest wątpliwa.”

„Technologia rakietowa zastosowana w samochodzie otwiera rewolucyjne możliwości.”

„Guardian to najbardziej nieznośna gazeta na Ziemi.”

“A great deal of bargaining power with suppliers. We are never locked in to anyone.”

“Never saw this British expat guy who lives in Thailand (sus) at any point when we were in the caves. Only people in sight were the Thai navy/army guys, who were great. Thai navy seals escorted us in — total opposite of wanting us to leave. Water level was actually very low & still (not flowing) — you could literally have swum to Cave 5 with no gear, which is obv how the kids got in. If not true, then I challenge this dude to show final rescue video. You know what, don’t bother showing the video. We will make one of the mini-sub/pod going all the way to Cave 5 no problemo. Sorry pedo guy, you really did ask for it.”

“Sending large numbers of people to explore and settle Mars in the decades ahead isn't inevitable, but it is entirely possible. The biggest challenge isn't the engineering and spacecraft, however difficult they may be. Instead, it's making sure that a sustained Mars campaign proceeds as a national priority, and that will happen only if the American people are behind it. We have the opportunity now to make this happen. We might not be so fortunate in the future.”

“It doesn’t do a great deal to advance the goal of humanity. I would pay $20 million not to spend six months in Russia. And besides this, my interest is how do we enable many other people to go to space, not necessarily me, personally.”

“My approach is simply to seek out very talented people, ensure that the environment at SpaceX is as motivating & enjoyable as possible and establish clear & measurable objectives.”

“Only by breaking through to new paradigms of space travel will more than a handful of us ever get to Mars and make it a potentially livable place.”

“Even if there's a zombie apocalypse, you'll still be able to travel using the Tesla Supercharging system.”

“I could either watch it happen, or be part of it.”

“I think that is a mistake and results in cloudy judgment on important technical issues. They can't tell if something is really good or not, so they just do what everyone else does, assuming it to be the safe bet.”

“Imagine creating a huge software program that can only be tested in little pieces on a computer that is slightly different from what it is supposed to run on. However, when you do run it as a whole on the actual computer for the first time, it must run almost flawlessly without a single significant bug. When is the last time you saw a software program do that?”

“We are used to things improving every year; we are used to having a better cell phone next year than this year; a better lap top. We are even used to some basic things, like we expect more from your car in next year’s model than last year’s model. But this is not the case in space; reliability and cost - those are the fundamental parameters of transportation - have not improved.”

“The heroes of the books I read, The Lord of the Rings and the Foundation series, always felt a duty to save the world.”

“Falcon One is going to be the lowest cost per flight to orbit of any production rocket.”

“I think the rocket business is quite cyclic. There are a great many peaks and troughs.”

“We got to the moon, but have never done anything better since. I'm disappointed that we have not made more progress since Apollo. I don't even see a plan that says we're going to do better than Apollo to exceed that goal.”

“AI is much more advanced than people realize. … Humanity's position on this planet depends on its intelligence so if our intelligence is exceeded, it's unlikely that we will remain in charge of the planet.”

“If we can build something that is capable of taking people and equipment to Mars, such that it can service a transportation infrastructure for humanity becoming a multi- planet species - which I think is a very, very important objective - then I would consider the mission of SpaceX successful, at that point.”

“Every person in your company is a vector. Your progress is determined by the sum of all vectors.”

“I think we’ve got the risks pretty well characterized. I think we are at least avoiding the mistakes that have been made in the past.”

“I want to be able to make sure that we have enough capital to survive at least three consecutive failures. If you want to make a small fortune in the launch vehicle business, start with a large one.”

“I think South Africa is a great country.”

“… I plan to travel to Mars and make it my home.”

“One was the Internet, one was clean energy and one was space.”

“Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.”

“I think the reason it’s cheaper is, first of all, we are a private entity and we have a very lean system in here. What we have been able to do here at SpaceX is to cherry-pick, you know, the top one or two percent and give them, you know, capital to execute well and a clear mission, which is low cost, reliable access to space, and no other constraints.”

“Since our primary competitors [in space launch] are national governments, the enforceability of patents is questionable.”

“I didn’t really expect to make any money. If I could make enough to cover the rent and buy some food that would be fine. As it turns out, it turned out to be quite valuable in the end.”

“I think there is a strong humanitarian argument for making life multi-planetary in order to safeguard the existence of humanity in the event that something catastrophic were to happen.”

“"People tend to think like, 'Why should electric vehicles have a subsidy,' but they're not taking into account that all fossil fuel-burning vehicles fundamentally are subsidised by the cost—the environmental cost—to Earth, but nobody's paying for it… We are going to pay for it, obviously—in the future we'll pay for it. It's just not paid for now."—Elon Musk”