Elon C E O @_o_elon_Musk

Elon Musk: Free speech was once a liberal value but now the left wants to censor it. “It's bizarre that we've come to this point. Free speech used to be a left or liberal value and yet we see from the “left” a desire to actually censor. And that seems crazy. I mean, I think we…

Elon Musk about his experience ramping up Model 3 production: “At this point, I think I know more about manufacturing than anyone currently alive on Earth. I can tell you how every damn part in that car is made.” (TED Interview, April 14, 2022)

Elon Musk: It was outrageous that Twitter suspended the account of a sitting president. “The reason I felt that it was important to acquire Twitter was because I could feel the walls closing in. It was outrageous that they suspended the account of a sitting president. That's…

Elon Musk: A lot of the negativity is coming from the idea that the economy is a zero-sum game. “What's at the root of a lot of the negativity is an axiomatic flaw. That the pie is static, that it's a zero-sum game, that if someone else succeeds, it's because they took more than…

Elon Musk: There's no chance of a city on Mars unless we dramatically improve our rate of innovation. “The thing that concerns me most right now is that unless we improve our rate of innovation dramatically, then there is no chance of a base on the moon or a city on Mars. I…

Elon Musk: Optimus will be able to walk your dog, babysit the kids, cook dinner, or play the piano. “Optimus is intended to be a sort of a fully functional humanoid robot, and it'll be capable of doing a wide range of tasks. So basically, you can just ask it to walk your dog,…

Elon Musk: “My philosophy is that if you play, you play to win. You don't play by half measure.”

Elon Musk: If you provide a cloak of moral invulnerability, the bad people will be the fastest to take it. “If you provide a moral get-out-of-jail free card, if you say, like, if you adopt this label, you cannot be attacked in any way, shape, or form, you're basically morally…

Elon Musk: The rule with Grok is supposed to be that if you ask for something, it should do it, provided it's legal. (The Joe Rogan Podcast, November 4, 2024)

Elon Musk: Every civilization eventually becomes paralyzed unless it actively stops the accumulation of laws and regulations. “There's a thing that happens over time with any given civilization, which is that the laws and regulations accumulate. If there's not some forcing…

Elon Musk: There's too much of a focus on past guilt. We need to move beyond that. Children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents or grandparents.

Elon Musk: We've designed Optimus from physics first principles. “We could not actually buy the actuators for any amount of money. They simply didn't exist. Even though there are 10,000-20,000 electric motors out there of various sizes and shapes, we've had to design every…

Elon Musk: It's fucked up if people are having fancy dinners in Washington, D.C. while people are being slaughtered in trenches.

Elon Musk: If a comet hits Earth, it's game over. “Earth does not currently have any ability to stop asteroids. Now, with Starship, we then have some ability to stop an asteroid. Technically, a comet would be the real danger because there are billions, if not more than billions,…

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Elon Musk: A lot of people don't realize I'm basically spending my time in the factory. “I think probably a lot of people don't realize I'm basically just in the factory in design or engineering meetings or production. That's like 80%, 90% of the time. I think sometimes people…

Elon Musk: You need a humanoid robot if you want to do all the things a human can do. “If you wanted to do all the things that a human can do, it turns out you need a humanoid robot. So if you want to just do a subset, that's much easier. But it turns out humans evolved to the…

Elon Musk: If you're leading engineers, you should yourself be good at engineering. “If somebody is going to lead something in technology, they must themselves be good at technology. If they're going to lead something that involves complex engineering, they must themselves be…

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Elon Musk: I'm not aware of many companies that were created without an extended period of extreme pain. “Maybe there are occasionally companies that get created where there's not an extended period of extreme pain, but I'm not aware of very many such instances. But I do think…