Elon Musk says

“I mean, I think that if people are concerned about volatility, they should definitely not buy our stock. I’m not here [on an earnings call] to convince you to buy [Tesla] stock. Do not buy it if volatility is scary. There you go.”

—Elon Musk

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“Pronouns suck.”

—Elon Musk

“The goal of OpenAI is really just to take the set of actions that are most likely to improve the positive futures. Like, if you can think of like the future as a set of probability streams that branch out and then converge; collapse down to a particular event and then branch out again and there's a certain set of probabilities associated with the future being positive and a different type flavours of that and at OpenAI we want to try to guide… do whatever we can to increase the probability of the good futures happening.”

—Elon Musk

“There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future?”

—Elon Musk

“Science is discovering the essential truths about what exists in the Universe, engineering is about creating things that never existed.”

—Elon Musk

“My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent.”

—Elon Musk

“Mark my words, AI is far more dangerous than nukes… Why do we have no regulatory oversight?”

—Elon Musk

“I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.”

—Elon Musk

“I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.”

—Elon Musk

“This is a battle for the future of civilization. If free speech is lost even in America, tyranny is all that lies ahead.”

—Elon Musk

“If you’re not concerned about AI safety, you should be. Vastly more risk than North Korea.”

—Elon Musk