Elon Musk on working at Tesla: “Many people at Tesla have gone from working on the line to being in senior management. There are no lords and peasants. Everyone eats at the same table. Everyone parks in the same parking lot. At GM, there's a special elevator only for senior executives. We have no such thing at Tesla.”

Elon Musk: “In ten years, we'll have a mass driver on the Moon”

Elon Musk explains why Starlink is basically unbreakable “There are over 10,225 Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit right now, moving at 25 times the speed of sound, Zipping around the Earth at ~550 km altitude Because they’re so close, latency is extremely low unlike old-school geostationary satellites at 36,000 km. They’re all interconnected with laser links, forming a giant laser mesh network in space Even if fiber cables get cut on the ground, Starlink keeps working perfectly High-speed internet anywhere on Earth no matter what happens below”

Elon Musk on what Nelson Mandela actually stood for and how South Africa has completely lost that "The vision that Nelson Mandela, a remarkable leader, proposed was for all races to coexist equally in South Africa. Currently, there are around 140 laws that preferentially benefit Black South Africans over others"

Elon Musk on the potential of high launch rates and rocket reusability: "The potential is there with a high launch rate, if one can achieve full, and rapid reusability to improve the cost of space access by a factor of more than 100."

Elon Musk: "I don't ever give up. I’d have to be dead or completely incapacitated"

Elon Musk: “America needs to be strong enough to last long enough to extend life to other planets and to get AI and robotics to the point where we can ensure that the future is good"

Elon Musk: "This is the foundation of my philosophy: I am curious about the nature of the universe... and obviously I will die... But I would like to know that we are on a path to understanding the nature of the universe and the meaning of life and what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe"

Elon Musk: “I feel fear quite strongly. It's not as though I have the absence of fear. But there are times when something is important enough, you believe in it enough, that you do it in spite of fear.”

Elon Musk: “It is important in this often difficult and troubled world for there to be things that also inspire and make you feel great to be part of humanity.”

Elon Musk: “You need to have empathy for civilization as a whole and not commit a civilizational suicide.”

Elon Musk: “Anyone – of any race, creed or nationality – who came to America and worked like hell to contribute to this country will forever have my respect.”

Elon Musk: “Starship will end up doing the whole Moon mission. Mark my words.”

Elon Musk: “Starship is the largest flying object ever made and it will continue to grow.”

Elon Musk: “We need to make sure that AI cares deeply about truth and beauty.”

Maye Musk: “I think being richest person of the world wasn't his goal. His goal was just to do good things. He saw so many opportunities where he could do good things.”

Elon Musk: “We should have paper ballots only. It should be in-person voting, with ID, end of story.”

Elon Musk: “Cybertruck is the best vehicle Tesla has ever made so far.”

Elon Musk: “The acid test for optimism about the future is whether someone chooses to have children.”

Elon Musk: “My work hours are almost entirely engineering products and production lines.”

Absolutely mind-blowing. The $SPCX IPO kicked off just 15 minutes ago, and volume has already exploded to 160 million shares traded — totaling around $26 billion. That’s $1.7 billion worth of SpaceX stock trading every minute. History is being made in real time. 🔥