# Elon Musk ![[50 Resources/51 Attachments/51.03 Public/2025-08-22_Elon_Musk.jpg|400]] Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971) is a South African-born entrepreneur, engineer, and business magnate. He is the CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc., founder and CEO of SpaceX, and owner of X (formerly Twitter). Musk is one of the wealthiest people in the world and is known for his involvement in multiple revolutionary companies. Born in Pretoria, South Africa, Musk moved to the United States to attend university and later became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He co-founded PayPal, which was sold to eBay, and has since founded or co-founded several companies including Tesla (electric vehicles), SpaceX (space exploration), Neuralink (brain-computer interfaces), The Boring Company (tunnel construction), and xAI (artificial intelligence). ## Quotes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[Elon Musk]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> <!-- SerializedQuery: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[Elon Musk]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> - [[Any product that needs a manual to work is broken]] - [[Better to live life erring on the side of being optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right. Be realistic, but, as Monty Python would say, always look on the bright side of life]] - [[Fear is not the mind-killer, context switching is the mind-killer]] - [[I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side]] - [[Incompetence in the limit is indistinguishable from sabotage]] - [[Reasoning from first principles is a superpower]] - [[The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize something that should not exist]] <!-- SerializedQuery END --> ## Books <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #books AND [[Elon Musk]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> <!-- SerializedQuery: LIST FROM #books AND [[Elon Musk]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> - [[Elon Musk (book)]] <!-- SerializedQuery END -->