Elon Musk: “My prediction is that probably by the end of next year we'll have hundreds of thousands, if not over a million Teslas doing self-driving in the US.”

Elon Musk on DOGE: I think history will judge that what we're doing is very good for America’s future. “Everything that DOGE does is an open book. We're, I think, the most transparent action, the most transparent organization in government ever. Every single DOGE action is

Elon Musk: Mars will be an opportunity to rethink civilization. “It's also an opportunity for the Martians to rethink how they want civilization to be. So you can maybe rethink, like, what kind of form of government do you want? What new rules do you want to have? There's a

Elon Musk: It's easy to be a warmonger if it's someone else who is being slaughtered in trenches. “It's easy to be a warmonger if you don't have to risk dying at the front lines. Basically, it's fucked up if people are having fancy dinners in Washington, D.C. while people are

Elon Musk: We want to make it possible for anyone interested to move to Mars and help build a new civilization. “We want to ultimately make it so that anyone who wants to move to Mars and help build a new civilization can do so. Anyone out there. How cool would that be? And

Elon Musk: “Something must stop the cycle of reciprocal violence. Something must stop it, or it will never stop. Just eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, limb for a limb, life for a life. Forever and ever.”

Elon Musk: My concern about a lot of the AIs being developed is that they're trained to lie. “I do worry about AI. Because we are creating an intelligence that ultimately will be far more intelligent than any human, and ultimately more intelligent than the sum of all humans. In

Elon Musk: Choice of narrative is a pernicious form of manipulation. “We need to allow the people to develop the narratives that are of interest to them. It's possible for news to be technically truthful, but they're still deciding what the narrative is. Let's say you took a

Elon Musk: The left is kind to the criminals and cruel to the victims. “Once we unlocked Twitter from being censored, then we started to see what was really going on. I became increasingly concerned. I was seeing videos of people streaming across the border on Twitter, now 𝕏.

Elon Musk: It's very important to have a competition for truth. “We're putting a lot of effort into Community Notes. That is, I think, quite a good way to assess the truth of things. It's the community itself, basically the people of Earth, who are competing to provide the most

Elon Musk: I have no respect for the warmongers and the war profiteers. “I have no respect for the warmongers and the war profiteers and those who want the war to continue forever for their own purposes. This is, in my view, an evil thing, because I'll talk to someone on the

Elon Musk: SpaceX is successful because our product is much better and costs less, not because of government subsidies. “We do essential work for the government. We do useful essential work that we compete for and win contracts on because our product is much better and costs

Elon Musk: We must have an expansionist philosophy for civilization and for consciousness. “In the extreme form of the environmentalist movement, people start to view humans as a plague on the surface of the Earth, as a fundamentally bad thing. This implies that if all humans

Elon Musk: Cross-fertilizing ideas between industries is a superpower. “In terms of manufacturing complex machines at volume, the automotive industry is the best. The space industry is very good at advanced materials and making things very light. So, taking advanced materials

Elon Musk: Here's why Tesla's camera-only self-driving will be safer than Waymo's approach. David Faber: “Why do you feel that [Tesla's camera-only approach] is going to be the equivalent [to Waymo's with radar and LiDAR] in terms of safety profile?” Elon: “Oh, I think it'll be

Elon Musk: More people should build things. “We need more of our talented people in America going into engineering and into technical trades and building things, essentially. We have too many of our smartest people go into law and finance, which is both a criticism and a

Elon Musk: Try to create more than you consume. “When we see people doing things that seem morally questionable, it's often because they have a zero-sum mindset. If you have a zero-sum mindset, then the only way to get ahead is by taking things from others. But this is false.

Elon Musk: Tesla would never sue another car company for using our patents. “I don't like patents, personally. When I was first starting out developing technology, I got lots of patents, and I thought this was a good thing. And then I discovered that a patent was really like

Elon Musk: When I felt the censorship was closing in, I acquired Twitter to make it a bastion of free speech. “I started having concerns about three years ago, but I just had an uneasy feeling that something doesn't feel right. The censorship was becoming ridiculous. I had the

Elon Musk: The Starship program is a rapidly changing situation. It's really just a question of how much we can learn in the shortest period of time. “Think of it like a guided missile: A guided missile is going in the wrong direction at any given point in time, but it