'A big part of the problem is that journalists used to choose their career to pursue truth, but in recent years many have entered journalism to be activists.'

| Elon Musk

“In general, I believe government should rarely impose its will upon the people, and, when doing so, should aspire to maximize their cumulative happiness. That said, I would prefer to stay out of politics.”

| Elon Musk

“Open primaries sound like a good way to move candidates to be more centrist. Term limits help with the gerontocracy problem, but, frankly, there should be a max age beyond which you can’t run (maybe 70?), just like there are min ages for house, senate & president.”

| Elon Musk

'Starlink is meant for peaceful use only.

To help mend the fault in our stars.'

| Elon Musk

'If you have a choice of a lower valuation with someone you really like or a higher valuation with someone you have a question mark about, take the lower valuation.”

| Elon Musk

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

| Elon Musk

“At Tesla we’ve never spent any money on advertising, we put all the money into R&D, manufacturing and design to try to make the car as good as possible.”

| Elon Musk

“Generally starting a business, I’d say number one is have a high pain threshold. There’s a friend of mine who’s got a good saying which is that starting a company is like eating glass and staring into the abyss.”

| Elon Musk

'Starship, with its voluminous cargo bay, will enable incredible space telescopes for astronomy.'

| Elon Musk

“Business or personal, wishful thinking causes a lot of trouble.”

| Elon Musk

'There will not be a winter for AI, quite the opposite.'

| Elon Musk

“If somebody comes and makes a better electric car than Tesla, and it’s so much better than ours that we can’t sell our cars and we go bankrupt, I still think that’s a good thing for the world.”

| Elon Musk

'Twitter [X] is the source of truth.'

| Elon Musk

“The probable lifespan of human civilization is much greater if we are a multi-planet species as opposed to a single planet species. If we are a single planet species, then eventually there will be some extinction event, either from humans or some natural thing.”

| Elon Musk

“Anxiety is a scalar, fear is a vector.”

| Elon Musk

“I would love to just do innovation and just do engineering, but you raise a good point because a lot of life in general in any job you have to do your chores. To be successful in anything you have to do the tough stuff as well as the enjoyable stuff.”

| Elon Musk

“If we make life multiplanetary, there may come a day when some plants & animals die out on Earth, but are still alive on Mars.”

| Elon Musk

“Will visit IRS next time I’m in DC just to say hi, since I paid the most taxes ever in history for an individual last year. Maybe I can have a cookie or something …”

| Elon Musk