Elon Musk Quotes

businessman and entrepreneur (born 1971)

Elon Reeve Musk (born 28 June 1971) is a South African-born entrepreneur and business magnate resident in the United States. He is the founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer at SpaceX; early-stage investor, CEO, and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI; president of the Musk Foundation; and owner of X Corp., formerly known as Twitter, Inc. With an estimated net worth of about US$487.3 billion as of October 2025, Musk is the wealthiest person in the world according to the Bloomberg billionaires index and the Forbes real-time billionaires list.

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Birth Name: Elon Reeve Musk

Alternative Names: Elon R. Musk • Elon R Musk • Musk

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Space-based industries will vastly exceed the value of all of Earth, given that you could harness roughly 100,000 times more energy than Earth and still be using less than a millionth of the Sun’s energy!

Was going to work out this morning. Went to IHOP instead.

It’s the idiotic blank slate fallacy.

If someone labors under the absurd belief that all humans are exactly the same (despite glaringly obvious differences!), then any variance in outcome must be due to some combination of oppression and luck.

Hope we're not just the biological boot loader for digital superintelligence. Unfortunately, that is increasingly probable

Worth reading Superintelligence by Bostrom. We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.

Do not search for purple squirrels! Giving them attention only makes them want to be more purple.

Really should be a rule that oatmeal-raisin cookies can't look too much like choc chip. Doppelgänger cookie trickery!

Protect the light of consciousness

Goal is for unsubsidized solar power to cost less than grid electricity from coal or fracked gas

Reread Asimov's Foundation series. Brilliant.

Nothing against all the oatmeal-raisin cookies out there. Just be yourself.

TCP packet walks into a bar & says “I’d like a beer.” Barman replies “You’d like a beer?” “Yes,” replies TCP packet,“I’d like a beer.”

Dune series by Herbert also brilliant. He advocates placing limits on machine intelligence.

Read books, talk to people & iterate rapidly with hardware & software

Reading The Culture series by Banks. Compelling picture of a grand, semi-utopian galactic future. Hopefully not too optimistic about AI.