The most interesting quotes from Elon Muska

If it depended on me, I would prefer that the engine does not explode. But the explosion was nice! - this is just one of the quotations from the Muska book debuting on the Polish market. It has convinced me that the creator of the hottest Silicon Valley companies is a visitor from another planet.

Reading the book, I chose a few interesting quotes that allow me to get to know the look of Muska on all of his businesses.

Tesla

Until today, all electric cars sucked - said Elon Musk before the premiere of Tesla.

Until then, however, he had a long way to go. Tesla was founded in 2003, and the first car was sold only after 5 years. And yet 2008 was the beginning of the global financial crisis, which did not affect the condition of the industry.

If we did not succeed, Tesla would become an example that people should not deal with electric cars. She would probably be considered another stupid car company.

Today, however, Tesla beats new electrical sales records, launches new car models and has already had a crisis in 2018. The momentum is added by the company's own battery factory, which only emphasizes how integrated the Tesla production system is.

It was him who let Tesla go to the market with Powerwall - a battery that can power the whole house. And how to recharge it? Of course, using solar cells on the roof . Tesla links.

The obvious problem with solar energy is that the sun does not shine at night. I think most people are aware of this.

Autonomous cars

Tesla has a chance not only to switch cars to electric motors, but also to popularize autonomous cars that do not require a driver.

It's easy to make the autonomous steering system functional in 99 percent. But that is not enough. The one percent you drive into the wall ... is not cool. In fact, the system must be 99.99 percent reliable and when it loses confidence it must inform the driver early enough to take control before something terrible happens.

Musk allows a certain level of risk. He knows that even autonomous cars will not provide us with 100% security, because they move in unpredictable conditions. However, there is no transport without victims. These happen regardless of whether we analyze buses, trains or planes.

A much greater level of security will only be ensured by switching all of the transport to autonomy .

In the long run, having a car without an autonomous system will be like having a horse. You can have it for sentimental reasons, but it does not function as a real means of transport.

SpaceX

Today, SpaceX is regarded as the leading representative of the private companies' race into space. However, this was not always the case. The power of Falcon was born in pain. Falcon 1 reached orbit only on the fourth attempt, on September 28, 2008. Before the start, Elon Musk told his wife that if this time they would fail, they would have to move out to his parents' basement.

Where did the breakthrough, how did SpaceX introduce space aeronautics?

It's really crazy that we're building these complicated rockets and smashing them after each flight. Madness!

SpaceX has proven that rockets do not have to be single-use. It happened soon after the only Russian spacecraft capable of transporting people to the International Space Station was Russian Soyuz.

In the light of the annexation of Crimea and the formal breaking of military ties with Russia [Atlas], V can not be described as providing safe access to space for our nation, since the delivery of its main engine depends on the consent of President Putin.

SpaceX's answer was Dragon 2 , which was able to test on the International Space Station. The next flight to the International Space Station will be held with the participation of a living crew.

Mars exploration

Muska's plans, however, go much further.

I would fly to Mars. Definitely. It would be great to be born on Earth and die on Mars. It's best not in the place of the collision.

He wants to become one of the first tenants of the Red Planet. People are supposed to get there already in 2024 and set up a colony that would allow us to become an interplanetary species.

As far as we know so far, there is no proof for the existence of life on Mars. At most, we can count on some underground microorganisms. (...) Since there is no life there, there is no moral question. And in a sense, it would be immoral to abandon [colonization on Mars], if in effect it would ensure the survival of earthly life in the form known to us.

In the colonization of Mars, Musk is guided by the good of humanity as a species that for various reasons will have to leave the Earth. Among the most pressing problems, he mentions climate change or growing tensions between nuclear powers.

[Exploration of space] is not as important as, for example, health care, but more important than cosmetics, for example. Generally I am a supporter of cosmetics, I like them, they are great. But, you know either lipstick or a colony on Mars.

Future

Muska's ideas go far beyond transport, batteries or even Mars. One of his ideas concerns even connecting our brains with the digital world.

We currently have limited bandwidth. We create a digital "I" using emails, computers, applications. We are practically superhuman, but the bandwidth of the interface between the cerebral cortex and our digital "I" limits us very much. Overcoming this limitation will be very important in the future.

And this is just the beginning. Maciej Gablankowski, author of the book "Elon Musk. What he really thinks ", he set about the translation of Elon's most interesting statements in interviews and presentations on YouTube, and later he sorted them into a neat whole telling the story of self-made-man.

"I think that probably too many stout minds are involved in sitting on the net, finances or law. This is one of the reasons why we see so little innovation. "

The book is divided like Muska's favorite reading from youth, or Hitchhiker through the Galaxy. In Life, the Universe and the rest, we find out what inspires Elona. In Hi, and thanks for the fish, we get to know his point of view on cosmic exploration. Later, in Hitchhiking through the Galaxy, we get together for an electric ride in Tesla to talk about money in the Restaurant at the end of the world , without which his companies would not be able to spin. In principle , the book ends in a harmless , or fragment about the future plans of the visionary.

The book is absorbed in one breath during several pleasant meetings.

I recommend it especially as a motivator to overcome my own weaknesses and inspiration to prove to myself that the impossible does not exist . After reading, Musk appears as an extraordinary, crystal-clear individual. It is definitely outstanding, but its history also has slightly darker cards. From the accusations of pedophilia put forward in relation to the Thai rescuer, by attempting to influence Wall Street, to get the best working conditions at Tesla - the figure of Elon Muska has many dimensions. I agree that they fade in the face of cosmic exploration or the transfer of motorization to electric tracks, but they are slightly missing.

Elon Musk changes our reality, although he pays a lot for it. He works for two or three positions and tweets with fans. The world without it would not only be different, but also definitely boring.

It's good to have your Iron Man.

The book has been published by Znak publishing house for PLN 25.

The most interesting quotes from Elon Muska