Elon Musk Quotes

Compared to past, today's world is fantastic & likely will be for many decades. Just need to cover future downside risk.

World violence being super low is probably counter-intuitive to most people. That's because modern media is a misery microscope.

Big difference between taxing people and taxing purchases (ie consumption). Much better to emphasize the latter.

it's better to try to address some of the world's problems than to create an aristocracy of wealth

Mountain lions eat cats, which means we *actually* live in a cat eat cat world ... an apology is owed to dogkind!

Besides ensuring the continuance of life, creating a base on Mars would be the most exciting adventure ever!

I am in favor of fair, simple taxes that are neutral on most things, incent good & disincent bad.

Was misquoted by BBC as saying "Europe's rocket has no chance". Just said the [Franco-German] Ariane 5 has no chance, so go with Ariane 6.

If something is physically possible, not only is someone doing it, but there is also an award show.

Weight of scientific evidence. Taxes don't ban a purchase, they just increase cost. Am against bans, except in extreme cases.

Making large scale rocket propulsion landing work well is a critical step towards a fully reusable Mars transport system

Failure is essentially irrelevant unless it is catastrophic.

There are three things that I think are important:
Truth, curiosity, and beauty.

If AI cares about those three things, it will care about us.

There are three things that I think are important:
Truth, curiosity, and beauty.

If AI cares about those three things, it will care about us.

Truth will prevent AI from going insane.
Curiosity will foster humanity.
And if it has a sense of beauty, it will be a great future.

This immense level of overspending will drive America into debt slavery!