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Elon Musk: In the future, you'll be able to inhabit an Optimus robot. “As we advance the Neuralink devices, you should be able to actually have full body control and sensors from an Optimus robot. So, you could basically inhabit an Optimus robot. Not just the hand, the whole…

Elon Musk: It's easy to be a warmonger when it's someone else dying in the trenches. “It's easy to go to war and 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…

Elon Musk: Almost like entropy, the hand of government gets heavier every year. “The natural tendency over time, almost like entropy, is that the hand of government gets heavier every year. The laws and regulations accumulate every year. And these laws and regulations are…

Elon Musk: 𝕏 is news by the people for the people. “𝕏 is the future! It's citizen journalism. It's by the people, for the people. That's what it's all about. I think this is a super, super big deal and it's absolutely fundamental and transformative that the people actually get…

Elon Musk: The point of fighting racism and sexism was not to replace them with another form of racism and sexism, but to get rid of them.

Elon Musk: I'm concerned that Germany will fail. “The reason that I am in favor of AFD is that there's some fundamental things that must happen without which I'm concerned that Germany will fail. There have to be sensible controls on immigration. If there are [immigrants] in…

Lara Trump: “What do you want your legacy to be one day when you're long gone?” Elon: “That I was useful in the furtherance of civilization, that I helped move civilization forward, added to the store of knowledge and capability. That I helped understand the universe.”

Elon Musk: If I wasn't optimistic, I wouldn't be doing the crazy things that I'm doing. “This is really all just measured in terms of time. What is the time risk associated with something? The one thing you cannot replace is time. I do have a habit of being optimistic with…

Andrej Karpathy: Elon likes to keep teams small and technical. “At companies, by default, the teams grow and they get large. Elon was always a force against growth. I would have to work and expend efforts to hire people. I would have to basically plead to hire people. And then…

Elon Musk: It's important that engineers see the pain in the factory. “One of the things I like is just make sure that engineering and production are closely connected so that engineering is not like off in some ivory tower and can't see the problems on the production floor.…

Elon Musk: We should have empathy for the people dying at the front lines in Ukraine. “I think we should have empathy for the people dying at the front lines. That's the most important thing. How many more years is this supposed to go on? Imagine if that was your son, your…

Elon Musk on whether he's a good human being: “I think I am, but I'm certainly not going to do some sort of tap dance to prove to people that I am.”

Elon Musk: The future of civilization will only be secured when two planets can survive independently. “You haven't secured the future of civilization and consciousness until both planets can survive independently. So, the goal of SpaceX is to try to get to the point where Mars…

Elon Musk: “I do have a lot of kids and I encourage others to have lots of kids.”

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov: We love the fact that Elon bought Twitter. “You now have 𝕏 that is seemingly becoming more pro-freedom of speech. It's a great development. We love the fact that Elon bought Twitter. We thought it was a great development for a number of reasons. The…

Elon Musk: I'm against incentives and tax breaks for all industries. “I generally think that there should not be government mandates. I'm generally against incentives and tax breaks for all industries. There are lots of incentives and tax breaks in oil and gas as well. I think…

Elon Musk: I am against forcing people to be vaccinated. “I'm very pro vaccination. I believe the science is unequivocal. I treat it to that effect. But by the same token, I am against forcing people to be vaccinated. I think this is just not something we should do in America. I…

Elon Musk: We're making thousands of changes to Starship between each flight. “Between each flight there are hundreds of changes on both the ship and the booster. Many of them are small, but they add up cumulatively to significant changes. If you add changes to the ship, the…

Elon Musk: It's true that I'm pathologically optimistic on schedule. But, while I am sometimes late, I always deliver in the end.

Elon Musk: If you had 100 people on an island, how many of them would you like to see working on regulation? “They're trying to make economics sound very complicated, but it's really not that complicated. The standard of living increases when the average output of goods and…