Elon Musk says

“Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.”

More from Elon Musk

“It is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.”

“Mark my words, AI is far more dangerous than nukes… Why do we have no regulatory oversight?”

“Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.”

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

“One of the biggest mistakes we made was trying to automate things that are super easy for a person to do, but super hard for a robot to do.”

“You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.”

“I am not normally an advocate of regulation and oversight… I think one should generally err on the side of minimizing those things… but this is a case where you have a very serious danger to the public.”

“Science is discovering the essential truths about what exists in the Universe, engineering is about creating things that never existed.”

“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour.”

“If you’re not concerned about AI safety, you should be. Vastly more risk than North Korea.”