Elon Musk

"If WFP can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it. But it must be open source accounting, so the public sees precisely how the money is spent."

"What happened here?"

"Bernie is a taker, not a maker"

"For those wondering, I will pay over $11 billion in taxes this year."

"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."

"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."

"If you scare people enough, they will demand removal of freedom. This is the path to tyranny."

"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."

"I'm talking about not having kids in the first place. That's the problem."

"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?""

"This is not a way to make money.... I don't care about the economics at all."

"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"

"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."

"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."

"Apple's store is like having a 30% tax on the Internet. Definitely not ok. Literally 10 times higher than it should be."

"A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far. Doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis."

"Population of Mars is still zero people!"

"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."

"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"

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I have spoken to Putin only once and that was about 18 months ago. The subject matter was space."

"I see a path for Tesla to be worth more than Apple and Saudi Aramco combined."

"The reason I acquired Twitter is because it is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence. There is currently great danger that social media will splinter into far right-wing and far left wing echo chambers that generate more hate and divide our society... That is why I bought Twitter. I didn't do it because it would be easy. I didn't do it to make more money. I did it to try to help humanity, whom I love ... That said, Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape where anything can be said with no consequences!"

"There is a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye,"

"Regarding Twitter’s reduction in force, unfortunately there is no choice when the company is losing over $4M/day."

"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."

"And lead us not into temptation …"

"I wonder what Earth will be like 88 million years from now"

"So city of SF attacks companies providing beds for tired employees instead of making sure kids are safe from fentanyl. Where are your priorities"

"The Twitter Files on free speech suppression soon to be published on Twitter itself. The public deserves to know what really happened."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Better to talk to people than communicate via tweet."

"Best way to fight misinformation is to respond with accurate information, not censorship"

"Blooper reel must be amazing."

"Any parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life"

"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."

"You assume they are good intentions. They are not. He wants to erode the very fabric of civilization. Soros hates humanity."

"I'll say what I want to say, and if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it."

"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."

"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."

"[the media] don’t like the competition."

"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."