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Elon Musk: Mars is the next natural step for humanity. “Mars is the next natural step. It's the only planet we really have a shot at establishing a self-sustaining city on. Once we do establish such a city, there will be a strong forcing function for the improvement of…

Elon Musk on catching Starship's booster: “Not bad for a bunch of monkeys!” “I'm glad to say that we were able to do that entirely with human brains and without AI. I think in the future, the AI might look at that and say, not bad for a bunch of monkeys.”

Elon Musk: I have contempt for advocates of an endless war in Ukraine. “We should have empathy for the thousands of people who are dying every day in trenches for no movement in the lines. For the past two years, thousands of people have died every week for nothing. I take…

Elon Musk: In retrospect, our current economy will be viewed as a caveman-economy. “The actual notion of a human economy, assuming civilization continues to progress, will seem very quaint in retrospect. It will seem like cavemen-throwing-sticks-into-a-fire-level of economy…

Elon Musk: What happens when there's something way smarter than us? Where does it go? “For a very long time, we've been the smartest creatures on Earth. That's been our defining characteristic. Speaking of martial arts, I don't think anyone should challenge a silverback gorilla…

Elon Musk: “In order to create a self-sustaining city on Mars, we'll need something on the order of a thousand ships. I guess we just need a Helen of Sparta on Mars.” (TED Interview, April 2022)

Elon Musk on personal robots: “We're headed for a wild future. Wild, wild, wild.” “We're headed for a wild future. I mean wild, wild, wild. Cars will drive themselves, people will have super helpful humanoid help robots and yeah, you'll be able to customize the personality,…

Elon Musk: I have a big focus on making things really easy. “As someone who did PayPal, you can imagine that I have a big focus on making things really easy, and online. We spent a lot of time at PayPal trying to make things super easy. If somebody goes to TeslaMotors dot com…

Elon Musk: Multiplanet civilizations are likely to last at least 10 times longer than single-planet civilizations. “Any given civilization is likely to last maybe 10 times longer, maybe much longer, if it is a multiplanet civilization than if it is a single-planet civilization.…

Elon Musk: I'm not looking to disrupt for the sake of disrupting. I'm simply trying to improve people's quality of life and make products they find useful.

Here's Elon Musk a year ago hinting that the future Roadster could be a flying car. “It will be something that's never existed before.” Elon: “The Roadster will be a collaboration between SpaceX and Tesla. You can expect some rockety stuff there.” Don Lemon: “A flying car?”…

Elon Musk: We really want to judge journalism on the quality of the content, not the publication that is behind it.

Elon Musk: I care about the reality of goodness, not what history books will say about me. “If I died knowing that I did what was right or did my best to do what was right, and even if in the history books they said I did wrong, I would still feel okay about that. I care about…

Elon Musk a year ago: The velocity of xAI is greater than any other company. We're catching up fast. “I do want to emphasize xAI is a fairly new company, it's just a little over a year old, so we have a lot of catching up to do relative to companies that have been around for 5,…

Elon Musk: The attacks, the terrorism, the killing of innocent people is rising in Europe. This will lead to the slaughter of Europe. “You're clearly seeing a massive increase in the number of attacks in Italy and broadly in Europe. And the legacy media downplays these attacks.…

Elon Musk: When the comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter, it made a hole the size of Earth. If such 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…

Elon Musk: SpaceX could have supplied Starlink to the states affected by the hurricanes, but the Biden admin revoked the award. “I'm actually generally against subsidies and incentives. We should let taxpayers keep their money is my opinion. But they had this $42 billion thing…

Interviewer to Elon: “You had a few people doubting you.” Elon: “Just a few, just a few. You know, here and there.”

Here's Elon Musk in 2009 explaining the advantages of electric cars. “For me it's been obvious for a while that we have to figure out a way to get off oil and that the solution is electric cars. The advantage of an electric car is that you can generate that electricity by…

Two years ago today, Elon Musk introduced xAI with these words: “The overarching goal of xAI is to build a good AGI with the purpose of trying to understand the universe. I think the safest AI, the safest way to build an AI is actually make one that is maximally curious and…