We have a strict ‘no-assholes policy’ at SpaceX.

I think there was a time when I was too strict and controlling. I think I asphyxiated my children.

In being strict, you were able to control.

The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away one’s worldly goods.

I don’t know if I’m a strict parent or a pushover.

I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.

And those who will carefully study the so-called ‘Mosaic code’ contained in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, will see that, though Jahveh’s prohibitions of certain forms of immorality are strict and sweeping, his...