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Elon Musk
196 quotes
“What happened here?”
Elon Musk (born 1971) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: October 31, 2021 9:55pm reply to David Beasley
“Bernie is a taker, not a maker”
Elon Musk (born 1971) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: November 14, 2021 tweet about Bernie Sanders
“For those wondering, I will pay over $11 billion in taxes this year.”
Elon Musk (born 1971) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Elon Musk Claims He Will Pay More Than $11 Billion In Taxes This Year.” Forbes, Siladitya, (December 20, 2021) tweet on Dec. 19, 2021
“I find history fascinating. There's a lot of incredible things that have been done, good and bad, that they help you understand the nature of civilization and individuals.”
Elon Musk (born 1971) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: #252 - Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI", on Lex Fridman Podcast, found on DeepCast (28 December 2021)
“We need to expand the scope and scale of consciousness so that we're better able to understand the nature of the universe and understand the meaning of life.”
Elon Musk (born 1971) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: #252 - Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI", on Lex Fridman Podcast, found on DeepCast (28 December 2021)
“If you scare people enough, they will demand removal of freedom. This is the path to tyranny.”
Elon Musk (born 1971) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tweet (January. 27, 2022), as cited in "Musk calls Biden a 'damp sock puppet' and rants about Covid-19 restrictions: 'This is the path to tyranny'" The Independent (London, January 28, 2022)
“I don't think we should try to have people live for a really long time. That it would cause asphyxiation of society because the truth is, most people don't change their mind. They just die. So if they don't die, we will be stuck with old ideas and society wouldn't advance.”
Elon Musk (born 1971) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Musk Discusses War in Ukraine and Importance of Nuclear Power", w:Business Insider (March 26, 2022)
“I'm talking about not having kids in the first place. That's the problem.”
Elon Musk (born 1971) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tweet (April 3, 2022), cited in "Is Elon Musk Trying to Populate Mars Himself?" New York magazine (July 7, 2022).
“A good sign as to whether there is free speech is, "Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like?”
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Recorded in: Elon Musk talks Twitter, Tesla and how his brain works", TED2022 (April 14, 2022; at 19:39)
“This is not a way to make money.... I don't care about the economics at all.”
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Recorded in: Elon Musk launches hostile bid for Twitter claiming free-speech concerns", CBC (April 14, 2022)
“This is just my strong, intuitive sense ... that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization”
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Recorded in: Elon Musk launches hostile bid for Twitter claiming free-speech concerns", CBC (April 14, 2022)
“Do you still have a half billion dollar short position against Tesla? Sorry, but I cannot take your philanthropy on climate change seriously when you have a massive short position against Tesla, the company doing the most to solve climate change.”
Elon Musk (born 1971) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: April 22, 2022 reply to Bill Gates per Business Insider article
“NBC basically saying Republicans are Nazis … Same org that covered up Hunter Biden laptop story, had Harvey Weinstein story early & killed it & built Matt Lauer his rape office. Lovely people.”
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Recorded in: May 2, 2022 tweet
“Apple's store is like having a 30% tax on the Internet. Definitely not ok. Literally 10 times higher than it should be.”
Elon Musk (born 1971) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Elon Musk Says Apple's 30% App Store Fee is 'Literally 10 Times Higher Than It Should Be' in MacRumors (3 May 2022).
“A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far. Doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis.”
Elon Musk (born 1971) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tweet (July 7, 2022), as cited in "Elon Musk says he is 'doing his bit to help underpopulation' after fathering twins with executive" The Telegraph (July 7, 2022)
“Population of Mars is still zero people!”
Elon Musk (born 1971) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tweet (July 7, 2022), cited in "Is Elon Musk Trying to Populate Mars Himself?" New York magazine (July 7, 2022)
“I don’t hate the man, but it’s time for Trump to hang up his hat & sail into the sunset. Dems should also call off the attack – don’t make it so that Trump’s only way to survive is to regain the Presidency.”
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Recorded in: Elon Musk says it’s time for Trump to ‘sail into the sunset’", CNBC (July 12, 2024)
“Let’s try this then: the will of the people who live in the Donbas & Crimea should decide whether they’re part of Russia or Ukraine”
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Recorded in: October 3, 2022 poll on Twitter - the voting options were 'yes' and 'no'
“You are assuming that I wish to be popular. I don't care. I do care that millions of people may die needlessly for an essentially identical outcome. Russia is doing partial mobilization. They go to full war mobilization if Crimea is at risk. Death on both sides will be devastating. Russia has >3 times population of Ukraine, so victory for Ukraine is unlikely in total war. If you care about the people of Ukraine, seek peace.”
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Recorded in: October 3, 2022 tweet
“I still very much support Ukraine, but am convinced that massive escalation of the war will cause great harm to Ukraine and possibly the world.”
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Recorded in: (October 3, 2022; 7:47pm) tweet
“I play the fool on Twitter and often shoot myself in the foot and cause myself all sorts of trouble . . . I don't know, I find it vaguely therapeutic to express myself on Twitter. It's a way to get messages out to the public.”
“Something will happen to Earth eventually, it’s just a question of time. Eventually the sun will expand and destroy all life on Earth, so we do need to move at some point, or at least be a multi-planet species. [...] You have to ask the question: do we want to be a space-flying civilisation and a multi-planet species or not? [...] It's a question of what percentage of resources should we devote to such an endeavour? I think if you say 1 per cent of resources, that's probably a reasonable amount.”
Elon Musk (born 1971) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview comments cited in the "Elon Musk: 'Aren’t you entertained?'", Financial Times (October 7, 2022)
“I'm subject to literally a million laws and regulations and I obey almost 99.99 per cent of them. It's only when I think the law is contrary to the interest of the people that I have an issue.”
Elon Musk (born 1971) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview comments cited in the "Elon Musk: 'Aren’t you entertained?'", Financial Times (October 7, 2022)
“I have spoken to Putin only once and that was about 18 months ago. The subject matter was space.”
Elon Musk (born 1971) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tweet (October 11, 2022), as cited in "Elon Musk denies report he spoke to Putin about use of nuclear weapons", The Guardian (October 11, 2022)
“To be frank, we’re very pedal to the metal come rain or shine. We are not reducing our production in any meaningful way, recession or not recession.”
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Recorded in: Quoted speaking about Tesla in "Elon Musk says Tesla is ‘pedal to the metal’ even with potential recession looming", CNBC (Oct 19 2022)
“I see a path for Tesla to be worth more than Apple and Saudi Aramco combined.”
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Recorded in: Elon Musk again claims one day Tesla will get bigger than Apple is today in AppleInsider (20 October 2022).
“There is a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye,”
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Recorded in: 29 October 2022 response to Hilary Clinton regarding the Paul Pelosi attack, attested to October 30th by Axios, Elon linked to this October 29th story by the Santa Monica Observer. Elon deleted the tweet later that day,…
“Regarding Twitter’s reduction in force, unfortunately there is no choice when the company is losing over $4M/day.”
Elon Musk (born 1971) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: tweet viaTwitter (November 4, 2022)
“To independent-minded voters: Shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties, therefore I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, given that the Presidency is Democratic.”
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Recorded in: November 7, 2022 tweet
“And lead us not into temptation …”
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Recorded in: November 20, 2022 tweet accompanying an image of a praying man captioned Donald Trump ignoring a woman censored by a Twitter logo
“I wonder what Earth will be like 88 million years from now”
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Recorded in: November 26, 2022 tweet
“So city of SF attacks companies providing beds for tired employees instead of making sure kids are safe from . Where are your priorities?”
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Recorded in: Quoted in San Francisco investigating allegation that Twitter converted office space to bedrooms for workers by Noah Goldberg (December 7, 2022)
“The Twitter Files on free speech suppression soon to be published on Twitter itself. The public deserves to know what really happened.”
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Recorded in: December 8, 2022 "Wikipedia Founder Indirectly Tells Elon Musk the Site 'Is Not for Sale'" by Nikki Main
“Forcing your pronouns upon others when they didn’t ask, and implicitly ostracizing those who don’t, is neither good nor kind to anyone. As for Fauci, he lied to Congress and funded gain-of-function research that killed millions of people. Not awesome imo.”
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Recorded in: December 11, 2022 tweet
“Is there a conspiracy theory about Twitter that didn’t turn out to be true? So far they’ve all turned out to be true — if not more true than people thought.”
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Recorded in: All-In” podcast, theme of show, “all things” with Chamath Palihapitiva, co-host (December 27, 2022)
“The media is racist. For a *very* long time, US media was racist against non-white people, now they're racist against whites & Asians. Same thing happened with elite colleges & high schools in America. Maybe they can try not being racist.”
Elon Musk (born 1971) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: February 26, 2023 tweet about comments by cartoonist Scott Adams (26 February 2023), cited in article BBC News (February 27, 2023)
“Better to talk to people than communicate via tweet.”
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Recorded in: March 8, 2023 tweet
“Best way to fight misinformation is to respond with accurate information, not censorship”
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Recorded in: March 16, 2023 tweet
“Blooper reel must be amazing.”
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Recorded in: March 26, 2023 tweet referencing King Kong
“Any parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life”
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Recorded in: April 14, 2023 tweet
“Now you can still satisfy the limbic instinct but not procreate. So we haven't yet evolved to deal with that because this is all fairly recent in the last 50 years or so before birth control.”
“I'm sort of worried that hey, civilization, if we don't make enough people to at least sustain our numbers, perhaps increase a little bit, then civilization's going to crumble.”
Elon Musk (born 1971) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Tucker Carlson Tonight (April 18, 2023), cited in "Elon Musk and "Tucker Carlson Tonight": A distracting match made in misinformation paradise" Salon (April 19, 2023)
“You assume they are good intentions. They are not. He wants to erode the very fabric of civilization. Soros hates humanity.”
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Recorded in: Tweet (15 May 2023), as cited in "Elon Musk claims George Soros 'hates humanity.' The ADL says Musk's attacks 'will embolden extremists'" CNN (May 16, 2023)
“I'll say what I want to say, and if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it.”
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Recorded in: Interview on CNBC (May 16, 2023) as cited in "Elon Musk misquoted 'The Princess Bride' when asked why he keeps tweeting political opinions and antisemitic conspiracy theories: 'If we lose money, so be it'" Insider (17 M…
“I think that the whole notion of work from home is a bit like the fake Marie Antoinette quote, "Let them eat cake". It's not just a productivity thing, I think it’s morally wrong. [...] People should get off the goddamn moral high horse with the work-from-home bullshit.”
Elon Musk (born 1971) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview on CNBC (May 16, 2023) as cited in "Elon Musk: Working from home is ‘morally wrong’ when service workers still have to show up", CNBC (Englewood Cliffs, May 16, 2023)
“If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill. No limit.”
“I support Russell Brand. That man is not evil.”
Elon Musk (born 1971) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tweets/posts on 'X', as cited in "The backers of Russell Brand claim ‘agenda’ lies behind allegations", The Times (London, September 18, 2023)
“[the media] don’t like the competition.”
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Recorded in: Tweets/posts on 'X', as cited in "The backers of Russell Brand claim ‘agenda’ lies behind allegations", The Times (London, September 18, 2023)
“History is written by the victors. Well, yes, but not if your enemies are still alive and have a lot of time on their hands to edit Wikipedia.”
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Recorded in: Tweets/posts on 'X', as cited in (September 19, 2023)
“Have you ever wondered why the Wikimedia Foundation wants so much money? It certainly isn’t needed to operate Wikipedia. You can literally fit a copy of the entire text on your phone! So, what’s the money for? Inquiring minds want to know…”
Elon Musk (born 1971) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: X, (October 22, 2023); as quoted by Matthew Gault, “Elon Musk Still Doesn’t Understand How Wikipedia Works”, Vice, (October 23, 2023)