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Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

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We could definitely make a flying car - but that's not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that's super safe and quiet? Beca...more

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I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quic...more

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When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

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I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human ...more

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SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as oppos...more

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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.

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An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadverten...more

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Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.

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There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. ...more

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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 coul...more