"Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of……" — Elon Musk
"Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it."
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201 Quotes by Elon Musk
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Every mode of transport that we use - whether it's planes, trains, automobiles, bikes, horses - is reusable, but not…
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There's a real opportunity to have a vertical takeoff and landing electric supersonic jet.
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You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it…
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I don't think very highly of Henrik Fisker. [...H]e thinks the reason we don't have electric cars is for lack…
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Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
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Target launch date for Falcon I maiden flight is Halloween(October 31) from our island launch complex in the Kwajalein Atoll.…
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It's a fixer-upper of a planet but we could make it work.
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The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.
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There's a fundamental difference, if you look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilisation, that's out…
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I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order…
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Going from PayPal, I thought: 'Well, what are some of the other problems that are likely to most affect the…
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The thing that's worth doing is trying to improve our understanding of the world and gain a better appreciation of…
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More Advancement Quotes
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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement…
— Niels Bohr
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Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in…
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a…
— William S. Burroughs
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Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.
— Clarence Clemons
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The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot…
— George Washington
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The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition…
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An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . .…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career…
— Patrick Lencioni
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A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it…
— Eric Hoffer
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I remember that after that teaching given to me as a young man, as a boy, almost, by the President…
— Heber J. Grant
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Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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