Elon Musk Quotes

This is just my strong, intuitive sense ... that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization

This is not a way to make money.... I don't care about the economics at all.

A good sign as to whether there is free speech is, "Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like?"

I'm talking about not having kids in the first place. That's the problem.

I don't think we should try to have people live for a really long time. That it would cause asphyxiation of society because the truth is, most people don't change their mind. They just die. So if they don't die, we will be stuck with old ideas and society wouldn't advance.

If you scare people enough, they will demand removal of freedom. This is the path to tyranny.

We need to expand the scope and scale of consciousness so that we're better able to understand the nature of the universe and understand the meaning of life.

I find history fascinating. There's a lot of incredible things that have been done, good and bad, that they help you understand the nature of civilization and individuals.

For those wondering, I will pay over $11 billion in taxes this year.

Bernie is a taker, not a maker

If WFP can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it.
But it must be open source accounting, so the public sees precisely how the money is spent.

Possibly, the most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize something that should not exist.

All designs are wrong, it's just a matter of how wrong.

The extreme difficulty of scaling production of new technology is not well understood. It’s 1000% to 10,000% harder than making a few prototypes. The machine that makes the machine is vastly harder than the machine itself.

We [the United States] will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.