Elon Musk Quotes

The media is racist. For a *very* long time, US media was racist against non-white people, now they're racist against whites & Asians.
Same thing happened with elite colleges & high schools in America.
Maybe they can try not being racist.

The EU should be abolished and sovereignty returned to individual countries, so that governments can better represent their people

Anyone who prevents fraud investigations is in on the fraud

I think it is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.

Falcon One is going to be the lowest cost per flight to orbit of any production rocket.

Something will happen to Earth eventually, it’s just a question of time. Eventually the sun will expand and destroy all life on Earth, so we do need to move at some point, or at least be a multi-planet species. [...] You have to ask the question: do we want to be a space-flying civilisation and a multi-planet species or not? [...] It's a question of what percentage of resources should we devote to such an endeavour? I think if you say 1 per cent of resources, that's probably a reasonable amount.

If you wanted to be close to the cutting edge, particularly in technology, you came to North America.

It doesn’t do a great deal to advance the goal of humanity. I would pay $20 million not to spend six months in Russia. And besides this, my interest is how do we enable many other people to go to space, not necessarily me, personally.

I think that is a mistake and results in cloudy judgment on important technical issues. They can't tell if something is really good or not, so they just do what everyone else does, assuming it to be the safe bet.

We could figure out ways with small aerospace companies to do a low-cost spacecraft and lander. But we could not find a way to do a low-cost launcher, unless we went to the Russians.

Optimus will be the first Von Neumann machine, capable of building civilization by itself on any viable planet.

People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves. It does not automatically improve. It only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better, and actually it will, I think, by itself degrade, actually. You look at great civilizations like Ancient Egypt, and they were able to make the pyramids, and they forgot how to do that. And then the Romans, they built these incredible aqueducts. They forgot how to do it.

Nuke Mars!
T-shirt soon.

Regarding Twitter’s reduction in force, unfortunately there is no choice when the company is losing over $4M/day.

The minds of youth are easily corrupted, which is why the corrupt ply their propaganda to the youth