It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.
Elon MuskI always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out โwhat does it all mean?โ I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world, if we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, then, weโre better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened. Thatโs the only way to move forward.
Elon MuskSo, there's quite a big keep-out zone, and when you factor the keep-out zone into account, the solar panels put on that area would typically generate more power than that nuclear power plant.
Elon MuskIt is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don't think it's possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.
Elon MuskI 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 truthsโฆand then reason up from there.
Elon Musk