The key test for an acronym is to ask whether it helps or hurts communication.

I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.

I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it's like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.

As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome.