Elon Musk citáty

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„Jedinou vecou, o ktorú má skutočne zmysel usilovať sa, je väčšie kolektívne osvietenie.“

„Keď je niečo veľmi dôležité, vždy to môžete urobiť, a to aj napriek tomu, že okolnosti vám veľmi neprajú.“

„„V SpaceX v podstate nemáme žiadne patenty. Naša hlavná konkurencia sa nachádza v Číne. Bolo by smiešne, ak by sme zverejnili patenty, pretože pre Číňanov by to bola „kniha s receptami.““

„Chcel by som raz zomrieť na Marse; len nie pri náraze.“

„SpaceX má 5 000 ľudí. Mám veľa pozornosti, ale v skutočnosti, oni robia tú ťažkú prácu.“

„Ľudia by mali mať možnosť cestovať na Mars a mali by tak vedieť učiniť ešte v tomto živote.“

„Skôr alebo neskôr musíme rozšíriť život za našu malú modrú bahnitú guľu - alebo zaniknúť.“

„Každý produkt, ku ktorému je potrebný návod, je k ničomu.“

„Aj keby bola zombie apokalypsa, stále by ste mohli cestovať pomocou systému Tesla Supercharging.“

„Veril som, že sa budem venovať inžinierstvu, písať knihy alebo nejakým iným spôsobom dávať svetu viac, ako si z neho beriem.“

„Snaha vytvoriť firmu je ako piecť tortu. Musíte mať všetky ingrediencie v tom správnom pomere.“

„„Veľké firmy sú postavené na skvelých produktoch“.“

„„Je pozoruhodné, ako veľa vecí môže explodovať. Mám šťastie, že mám všetky prsty.““

„Zlyhanie je jednou z možností. Pokiaľ nezlyhávate, nie ste dostatočne inovatívni.“

„Musíme zistiť, ako mať veci, ktoré milujeme a nezničiť pritom svet.“

„Myslím si, že Južná Afrika je vynikajúca krajina.“

„Som odporne proameričan. Je to miesto, kde sa dejú veľké veci.“

„Ak nič iné, sme odhodlaní zlyhať novým spôsobom.“

„... Mám v pláne odcestovať na Mars a urobiť z neho môj domov.“

„Máme lietadlá, vlaky, automobily a lode... Čo keby bol aj piaty režim?“

„Keďže našimi hlavnými konkurentmi (v rámci vesmírneho štartu) sú vlády jednotlivých štátov, vymáhateľnosť patentov je otázna.“

„Raketová technológia použitá na automobile otvára revolučné možnosti.“

„Každý človek vo vašej spoločnosti je vektorom. Váš pokrok je určený súčtom všetkých vektorov.“

„Pravdepodobnosť úmrtia pri prvej [ľudskej] misii je dosť vysoká.“

„Guardian sú najviac neznesiteľné noviny na našej planéte.“

„Mohol som to buď sledovať alebo byť toho súčasťou.“

„Odpoveď bola, že sme si mysleli, že sa to dá urobiť.“

„Myslím si, že máme povinnosť udržiavať svetlo vedomia, aby sme sa uistili, že bude pokračovať aj v budúcnosti.“

„Snažil som sa naučiť čo najviac z predchádzajúcich pokusov.“

“There is nothing inherently expensive about rockets. It's just that those who have built and operated them in the past have done so with horrendously poor efficiency.”

“We have planes, trains, automobiles and boats, … What if there was a fifth mode?”

“There’s a graveyard of prior attempts, a big graveyard. There’s probably some freshly dug graves just waiting to be filled. Our aspiration is to avoid that destination.”

“If nothing else, we are committed to failing in a new way.”

“As life’s agents, it’s on our shoulders.”

“We could figure out ways with small aerospace companies to do a low-cost spacecraft and lander. But we could not find a way to do a low-cost launcher, unless we went to the Russians.”

“If we can be one of the companies that makes it possible for humans to become a multi-planetary species, that would be the Holy Grail. It sounds a bit crazy but it's going to happen, and only if people build the means to do so. We're making progress toward a greater philosophical goal while building a sound business.”

“They [Apple] have hired people we've fired. We always jokingly call Apple the "Tesla Graveyard." If you don't make it at Tesla, you go work at Apple. I'm not kidding…. cars are very complex compared to phones or smartwatches. You can't just go to a supplier like Foxconn and say: Build me a car. But for Apple, the car is the next logical thing to finally offer a significant innovation. A new pencil or a bigger iPad alone were not relevant enough.”

“When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.”

“People should be travelling to Mars and doing it in our lifetime.”

“Tuition costs are outrageous. Fortunately, they gave me a scholarship…so I only had to cover living expenses, books, etc., by working.”

“People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves. It does not automatically improve. It only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better, and actually it will, I think, by itself degrade, actually. You look at great civilizations like Ancient Egypt, and they were able to make the pyramids, and they forgot how to do that. And then the Romans, they built these incredible aqueducts. They forgot how to do it.”

“Rocket tech applied to a car opens up revolutionary possibilities.”

“If you wanted to be close to the cutting edge, particularly in technology, you came to North America.”

“It’s so insane the way rockets work today. It would be like if you got a plane and the way you get to your destination is you bail out with a parachute over the city in question and your plane crash lands somewhere. That’s how rockets work today—with the exception of Falcon 9. This is completely bonkers.”

“One thing that is important is that, if you have a choice between a lower valuation with someone you really like, or higher valuation with someone you have a question mark about, take the lower valuation.”

“If somebody wants to stay in their house, that’s great. They should be allowed to stay in their house, and they should not be compelled to leave. But to say that they cannot leave their house, and they will be arrested if they do, this is fascist. This is not democratic. This is not freedom.”

“I'd rather be optimistic and wrong; than pessimistic and right.”

“So, I think the best analogy for rocket engineers, if you want to create complicated software, you can't run as an integrated whole, or run on the computer it's intended to run on, but, first time you run it, it has to run with no bugs. That's the essence of it. So ... we missed the mark there.”

“If the design takes too long to build, it’s a bad design.”

“I think there are probably too many smart people pursuing Internet stuff, finance, and law, that is part of the reason why we haven’t seen as much innovation.”

“I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.”

“If AI has a goal and humanity just happens to be in the way, it will destroy humanity as a matter of course without even thinking about it. No hard feelings.”

“We have planes, trains, automobiles, bikes, walking, Segway, hot air balloons, mopeds and boats, ... What if there was a tenth mode?”

“We [the United States] will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.”

“What happened here?”

“We must pass the great filter!”

“I'd rather be optimistic and wrong; than pessimistic and right.
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We have planes, trains, automobiles, bikes, walking, Segway, hot air balloons, mopeds and boats, ... What if there was a tenth mode?”

“Possibly, the most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize something that should not exist.”