Opinion
“33 engines means we can lose a few and still complete the mission.
Also, beyond a certain physical size, parts fabrication and transport become much more expensive.”
— Elon Musk, 9 November 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Opinion
“Nonetheless, look at how generic and banal day-to-day corpo fashion and cars have become for over 2 decades!!
Time for a total reset in fashion.
To quote my son, Saxon, “Why does everything today look like 2015??
The future should look like the future!”
We will make it so.”
— Elon Musk, 1 November 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Fact
“Neuralink will solve that with finesse at some point.
Have you considered any of the existing devices? They are a little brutish, but my understanding that they can be effective for some types of epilepsy.”
— Elon Musk, 30 October 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Fact
“I have steak, eggs & coffee for breakfast everyday 🦾”
— Elon Musk, 30 October 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Fact
“My older 5 children are adults and live independent lives.
I see my kids with Claire every other week and kids with Shivon every few days. That’s the whole schedule.”
— Elon Musk, 29 October 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Fact
“Future fun Roadster demos will include flying over the Snake River or maybe Grand Canyon and landing on its wheels and exceeding half the speed of sound…”
— Elon Musk, 17 October 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Fact
“True. You will be able to ask the Roadster to perform any of the tricks shown autonomously, as it will be sentient. Also, we will have a wild looping track (crazier even than Hot Wheels) at our Texas HQ where you can test out your Roadster.”
— Elon Musk, 17 October 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Opinion
“Since fate maximizes for ironic entertainment, it was inevitable that the “Roadster” would be a flying car”
— Elon Musk, 17 October 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Fact
“Turns out the future does have flying cars…”
— Elon Musk, 16 October 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Fact
“Major threshold passed. Almost all cars will be electric in the future.”
— Elon Musk, 15 October 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Fact
“Q1 tonnage to orbit by launch provider.
Once Starship is flying hourly, SpaceX’s mass to orbit will be about 100 times more than everyone else combined, even if they triple their current launch rate.”
— Elon Musk, 19 June 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Opinion
“Legacy medias lies both by promoting false stories and by ignoring true ones”
— Elon Musk, 2 June 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Opinion
“With Grok, our aspiration is a maximally truth seeking AI, which is like you always want to try get as close to the truth as possible, even if the truth is unpopular.”
— Elon Musk, 30 March 2025 · Watch: America PAC Town Hall — Green Bay, Wisconsin (2025) · 1:16:17 ↗ · In the archive
Opinion
“…publicly pushing to ensure that AI is truth seeking and is not sort of politically correct…”
— Elon Musk, 17 October 2024 · Watch: America PAC Town Hall — Folsom, PA (2024) · 16:13 ↗ · In the archive
Fact
“This is beyond dumb.
I never said was donating $45M/month to Trump – that was a totally fake @WSJ article!
How can back down from something that never happened!!??”
— Elon Musk, 24 July 2024 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Fact
“After that one puff with Rogan, I agreed, at NASA’s request, to do 3 years of random drug testing.
Not even trace quantities were found of any drugs or alcohol.
@WSJ is not fit to line a parrot cage for bird 💩”
— Elon Musk, 7 January 2024 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Fact
“They are pure evil.
How utterly absurd that this organization got major advertisers to boycott our platform for bogus allegations of antisemitism!”
— Elon Musk, 22 November 2023 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Fact
“I will pay a million Dogecoin for proof of this mine’s existence!”
— Elon Musk, 12 April 2023 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Fact
“They began brewing attacks of all kinds as soon as the Twitter acquisition was announced.
In my 30 year career, including the entire MeToo era, there’s nothing to report, but, as soon as I say I intend to restore free speech to Twitter & vote Republican, suddenly there is … …”
— Elon Musk, 20 May 2022 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Opinion
“Look, I know sometimes say or post strange things, but that's just how my brain works.”
— Elon Musk, 8 May 2021 · Watch: Saturday Night Live · 1:49 ↗ · In the archive
Opinion
“And the probability of something falling on your head if there are a bunch of flying cars around is much higher than if there are not.”
— Elon Musk, 18 December 2018 · Watch: Boring Company Tunnel Opening · 1:17 ↗ · In the archive
Fact
“Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.”
— Elon Musk, 7 August 2018 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Fact
“This is completely false. Never even heard of Cortica. Just taking my kids on a Spring Break trip to see ancient historical sites in Israel & Jordan.”
— Elon Musk, 20 March 2018 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Fact
“Not true. A friend sent me part of a BTC a few years, but I don’t know where it is.”
— Elon Musk, 28 November 2017 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Fact
“It was misinterpreted by Rolfe at WSJ as a fundraising effort. Neuralink is not seeking investors.”
— Elon Musk, 25 August 2017 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Joke
“One other I'd like to correct from the biography: I never said I was a samurai. Said I was ninja. No, that's a joke. Didn't say that either.”
— Elon Musk, 11 August 2017 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Fact
“Not true. Email from customer.”
— Elon Musk, 17 July 2017 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Fact
“This is not true. TM works for a lot of people and that's great, but I've maybe done it 7 or 8 times ever.”
— Elon Musk, 28 February 2017 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive