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Elon Musk, born on June 28, 1971, in South Africa, is a renowned investor and entrepreneur. He is known for his innovative work in the fields of technology and space exploration, serving as the founder of companies like Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and The Boring Company.

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“I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably that. So we need to be very careful...With artificial intelligence we're summoning the demon.”

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“People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.”

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“Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.”

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“The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.”

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“I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google.”

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“It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it's been possible, and that window could be open for a long time - hopefully it is - or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.”

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“The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.”

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“The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.”

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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. For potential customers out there, I should mention that Kwajalein has some of the worlds best scuba diving and snorkeling! It is literally a tropical paradise.”

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“I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.”

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“Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.”

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“If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.”

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“You should be innovating so fast that you're invalidating your prior patents.”

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“I think you should always be seeking negative feedback.”

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“I'm increasingly inclined to think there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level just to make sure that we don't do something very foolish.”

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“To our knowledge, life exists on only one planet, Earth. If something bad happens, it's gone. I think we should establish life on another planet-Mars in particular-but we 're not making very good progress. SpaceX is intended to make that happen.”

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Born: June 28, 1971
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