David Heinemeier Hansson:

This is exactly the kind of willing the future into existence that leaps of progress depend on. Who cares whether all these incredible ambitions arrive right on time or not.

Because ambition this crazy is only likely to emerge from someone equally and sufficiently nuts. And I mean that in the most admirable way possible. Musk is nuts. He’s one of the crazy ones. A true original. Easy to hate, impossible to ignore.

And that’s what gets me. Everyone find it easy to nod in agreement with Jobs’ ode to To The Crazy Ones. Everyone wants to believe that they’d support “the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers”. That they too would cheer for those who are “not fond of rules. And… have no respect for the status quo”.

But they won’t and they don’t. Most people are either aggressively or passively conformist. They squirm when The Crazy Ones actually attempt to change the world. They don’t see genius as often as they see transgressors.  A failure to comply and comport. And they don’t like it.

I like it. Not crazy for the sake of crazy, but crazy for the sake of progress. Demonstrable, undeniable, awe-inspiring progress. And that’s what Mr Musk has brought us and continues to bring us.