Elon Musk says

“When I was a little kid, I was really scared of the dark. But then I came to understand, dark just means the absence of photons in the visible wavelength--400 to 700 nanometers. Then I thought, well, it's really silly to be afraid of a lack of photons. Then I wasn't afraid of the dark anymore after that.”

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“As much as possible, avoid hiring MBAs. MBA programs don't teach people how to create companies.”

“There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.”

“I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.”

“The only thing that makes sense to do is strive for greater collective enlightenment.”

“Every person in your company is a vector. Your progress is determined by the sum of all vectors.”

“I wonder how many dead one-planet civilizations are out there in the cosmos that never made it to the other planet and ultimately extinguished themselves or were destroyed by external factors. Probably a few.”

“I think having a high bandwidth interface to the brain [is extremely important], we are currently bandwidth limited. We have a digital tertiary self. In the form of our email, computers, phones, applications, we are effectively superhuman. But we are extremely bandwidth constrained in that interface between the cortex and that tertiary digital form of yourself, and helping solve that bandwidth constraint would be very important for the future as well.”

“The Constitution is greater than any President. End of story.”

“I take the position that I'm always to some degree wrong, and the aspiration is to be less wrong.”

“I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.”