“the Riddle: “You’re standing on the surface of the Earth. You walk one mile south, one mile west, and one mile north.… — Ashlee Vance North pole Copy Share Image
“«He aprendido que la intuición no funciona muy bien en lo relativo a cosas de las que uno no sabe mucho —cuenta… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“Later in life, as I competed against the banks, I would think back to this moment, and it gave me confidence. All… — Ashlee Vance Confidence Copy Share Image
“I’ve learned that your intuition about things you don’t know that much about isn’t very good” — Ashlee Vance Learning 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 Robert heinlein Copy Share Image
“When Musk announced in 2014 that Tesla would open-source all of its patents, analysts tried to decide whether this was a publicity… — Ashlee Vance Electric cars Copy Share Image
“But the more the Tesla guys researched the industry, the more they realized that the big automakers don’t even really build their… — Ashlee Vance Raw material Copy Share Image
“The way Elon talks about this is that you always need to start with the first principles of a problem. What are… — Ashlee Vance First Principles Copy Share Image
“SpaceX, for example, would have written down all the steps needed to replace a filter—put on gloves, wear safety goggles, remove a… — Ashlee Vance 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 Move forward Copy Share Image
“I may have been optimistic with respect to the timing on some of these things, but I didn’t over-promise on the outcome,”… — Ashlee Vance Hope Copy Share Image
“Musk had spent months studying the aerospace industry and the physics behind it. From Cantrell and others, he’d borrowed Rocket Propulsion Elements,… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“I mean, there aren’t that many people you can talk to about this sort of thing” — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“All the bankers did was copy what everyone else did. If everyone else ran off a bloody cliff, they’d run right off… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“People had thrown money at green technology because it seemed like the right thing to do, not because it made business sense.” — Ashlee Vance Business Copy Share Image
“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
“The guys like Straubel who had been at Tesla since the beginning are quick to remind people that the chance to build… — Ashlee Vance Business opportunity Copy Share Image
“These efforts began in earnest on October 18, 2004, and, rather remarkably, four months later, on January 27, 2005, an entirely new… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“Here was a guy who had taken much of the Silicon Valley ethic behind moving quickly and running organizations free of bureaucratic… — Ashlee Vance Computers 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
“Musk came to see man’s fate in the universe as a personal obligation. If that meant pursuing cleaner energy technology or building… — Ashlee Vance Technology Copy Share Image
