Subjects / Education
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“There is obviously no “degree” you can get from a university that actually teaches you how to make an orbital rocket, as none of the professors know how to do it!”
— Elon Musk, 6 June 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“High-cycle, reliable engine reflight without replacement, refurbishment or laborious inspection is about the same degree of difficulty as a rapidly reusable heat shield. And then there are thousands of smaller challenges throughout the primary structure. This is a crazy hard problem.”
— Elon Musk, 12 May 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“Expand consciousness to the stars to understand the universe. The limiting factors for discovering new physics are colliders and telescopes, which move at the speed of a committee of governments. That is why I decided against a career in physics, even though I love physics. What can be learned on Earth is insignificant compared to what can be learned beyond Earth.”
— Elon Musk, 10 February 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“We don’t care where you went to school or even whether you went to school or what “big name” company you worked at. Just show us your code.”
— Elon Musk, 15 January 2025 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“The H1-B program should be reserved for people who would address an important shortfall of domestic expertise. There is some degree of fraud and considerable incompetence in every government program and H1-B is no exception. That fraud and incompetence need to be fixed throughout the government.”
— Elon Musk, 27 December 2024 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“The value of an “elite” college education is not what it used to be”
— Elon Musk, 31 January 2024 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“Great way to understand to what degree one is wrong. We are all always at least a little bit wrong, but can aspire to be less so.”
— Elon Musk, 27 February 2023 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“I would say I generally agree with the teaching of Christianity, but I’m not religious… I’ve never been particularly religious. Something created the universe, or the universe is here.”
— Elon Musk, August 2022 · Watch: Full Send Podcast video (2:26:34) ↗ · In the archive
“Tuition is in Dogecoin & u get a discount if u have a dog”
— Elon Musk, 31 October 2021 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“…to the degree we can couple collective human will to the outcome of artificial intelligence…”
— Elon Musk, 31 January 2021 · Watch: Clubhouse conversation (The Good Time Show) (2021) · 24:35 ↗ · In the archive
“I think colleges are basically for fun and to prove you can do your chores, but they’re not for learning.”
— Elon Musk, 9 March 2020 · Watch: Interview video ↗ · In the archive
“More background: I arrived in North America at 17 w $2000, a backpack & a suitcase full of books. Paid my own way thru college. Dropped out of Stanford Eng/Phys grad school w $110k in college debt. Created Internet startup w bro & Greg Khouri (love bro & loved Greg, may he RIP)”
— Elon Musk, 9 June 2018 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“By the time most people decide to head to their local dealer, they have already pretty much decided what car they want to buy, which is usually the same make as their old car. Tesla, as a new carmaker, would therefore rarely have the opportunity to educate potential customers about Model S if we were positioned in typical auto dealer locations.”
— Elon Musk, 22 October 2012 · Archived copy ↗ · In the archive