“Musk has taken industries like aerospace and automotive that America seemed to have given up on and recast them as something new… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“He listed The Lord of the Rings, Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, and Robert Heinlein’s The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress as some… — Ashlee Vance Asimov Copy Share Image
“on Mars, because the atmosphere is carbon dioxide and there’s a lot of water or ice in the soil, the carbon dioxide… — Ashlee Vance Carbon dioxide Copy Share Image
“And by recruiting hundreds of bright, self-motivated people, SpaceX has maximized the power of the individual. One person putting in a sixteen-hour… — Ashlee Vance Self motivated Copy Share Image
“Musk guides his engineers into taking ownership of their own delivery dates. “He doesn’t say, ‘You have to do this by Friday… — Ashlee Vance Friday Copy Share Image
“In regards to time, Musk may well set more aggressive delivery targets for very difficult-to-make products than any executive in history.” — Ashlee Vance History Copy Share Image
“The big car companies are so derivative. They want to see it work somewhere else before they will approve the project and… — Ashlee Vance Companies Copy Share Image
“He argued that science fiction, which once celebrated the future, has turned dystopian because people no longer have an optimistic view of… — Ashlee Vance Ability to change Copy Share Image
“favored moving toward open-source software like Linux, while Musk championed Microsoft’s data-center software as being more likely to keep productivity high. This… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“Steve Jurvetson, the venture capitalist who has invested in SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, worked for Jobs, and knows Gates well, also described… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“Whereas if they change a rule and something good happens, they don’t even get a reward. So, it’s very asymmetric. It’s then… — Ashlee Vance Regulators Copy Share Image
