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“That year the family welcomed twin daughters, Kaye and Maye, Musk’s mother. The children lived in a three-story, twenty-room house that included a dance studio to let Wyn keep teaching students.”

“…has turned Musk into one of the richest men in the world, with a net worth around $10 billion.” I think it’s now $400 billion? Insane.

“The teenage Musk then arrived at his ultralogical mission statement. “The only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment,” he said.”

“On his thirtieth birthday, Musk rented out a castle in England for about twenty people. From 2 A.M. until 6 A.M., they played a variation of hide-and-seek called sardines in which one person runs off and hides and everything else looks for him.”

“He’d argued that science fiction, which once celebrated the future, has turned dystopian because people no longer have an optimistic view of technology’s ability to change the world.”

“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads,” Jeff Hammerbacher, an early Facebook engineer, told me. “That sucks.”

“He’s also wired like a scientist and suffers mental anguish at the sight of a factual error. A mistake on a printed page would gnaw at his soul—forever.”