I Started Spacex With The Expectation Of

One Bit Of Advice: It Is Important To View Knowledge As Sort Of A Semantic Tree - Make Sure You Understand The Fundamental Principles, Ie The Trunk And Big Branches, Before You Get Into The Leaves/details Or There Is Nothing For Them To Hang On To.

You Should Be Innovating So Fast That You're Invalidating Your Prior Patents.

I Always See What’s... Wrong. Would You Want That? When I See A Car Or A Rocket Or Spacecraft, I Only See What’s Wrong. I Never See What’s Right. It’s Not A Recipe For Happiness.

If You Had To Buy A New Plane Every Time You Flew Somewhere, It Would Be Incredibly Expensive.

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.