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Up Quotes by Elon Musk
- Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.
- And we need things in life that are exciting and inspiring. It can't just be about solving some awful problem. There have to be reasons…
- I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy.…
- Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.
- Let's think beyond the normal stuff and have an environment where that sort of thinking is encouraged and rewarded and where it's okay to fail…
- If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.
- Don’t just follow the trend. You may have heard me say that it’s good to think in terms of the physics approach of first principles.…
- For my part, I will never give up, and I mean never.
- As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot.
- You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.
- My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And…
- Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.
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