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I Just Want To Retire Before I Go Senile Because If I Don't Retire Before I Go Senile, Then I'll Do More Damage Than Good At That Point.

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 As Well. Because When You Try New Things, You Try This Idea, That Idea... Well A Large Number Of Them Are Not Gonna Work, And That Has To Be Okay. If Every Time Somebody Comes Up With An Idea It Has To Be Successful, You're Not Gonna Get People Coming Up With Ideas.

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. [with Analogy] We Are Doing This Because It's Like Something Else That Was Done, Or It Is Like What Other People Are Doing. [with First Principles] You Boil Things Down To The Most Fundamental Truths…and Then Reason Up From There.

Well, My Motivation Behind Tesla Is Really To Do As Much Good As Possible For The Environment And The Electric-vehicle Revolution. I Think There Is Still A Lot Of Work To Do And If We Were To Sell To A Big Company, I'm Not Sure It Would Progress At The Same Pace.

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.