David Harris @Garjdk

Elon Musk: Patents benefit lawyers, not companies. “I don't like patents, personally. When I was first starting out developing technology, I got lots of patents, and I thought this was a good thing. And then I discovered that a patent was really like buying a lottery ticket to a…

MrBeast: Elon's plan to colonize Mars is the most badass thing happening on Earth right now. “Elon's vision for his companies and the way he pushes them to do things that were just not even humanly possible or imaginable a decade prior is very admirable. That's something I look…

Elon Musk: We'll achieve full and rapid reusability of the whole Starship in 2026. “We're pretty close to being able to rapidly reuse the booster for Starship. It comes back and gets caught by the arms, and then the arms place it back in the launch mount. We still have a…

Elon Musk on future wars: It's going to be drones and AI. “The biggest effect [of warfare's transformation] by far is AI and drones. The current war in Ukraine is very much a drone war already. If there's a major power war, it's very much going to be a drone war. It's going to…

Elon Musk: Shallow empathy allows criminals to hurt more people. “What I see is what I call shallow empathy. People have empathy for the criminals, but not empathy for the victims of the criminals. I believe one should have deep empathy and ask, what is the greater good for…

Elon Musk: Meritocracy made America great. “There are some core pillars, core values that have, I think, made America great. One of them is being a meritocracy – as much of a meritocracy as possible. Such that you get ahead as a function of your hard work and your skill.…

Elon Musk: Most civilizations collapsed because of low birth rates. “What ended most civilizations was a low birth rate. An extended period of prosperity seems to cause birth rates to plummet. It's somewhat counterintuitive. When a society is under stress, birth rates increase.…

Elon Musk: There must be some reason why 169 million people follow me. I must be keeping them amused in some way. “I do post a lot on the 𝕏 platform, sometimes 100 times a day. So, once in a while, I'll do something dumb, for sure. But I really try to say things that I think…

Elon Musk: It's hard to find reporting that's not partisan or click-maximizing. “Let's say you're just an average citizen trying to just get the facts, figure out what's going on. How to live your life, just looking for what's going on in the world. It's hard to find something…

Elon Musk: We need goals and achievements that make everyone glad to be human. “Landing on the moon is regarded as one of the greatest achievements of humanity, arguably of life itself. Even though only a handful of people went to the moon, vicariously we all went there. And it…

Elon Musk: “I believe in the physics approach to thinking. You're always weighing the probabilities that something is true or not true, or that there may be a third explanation. Be very open to new facts and changing your mind.”

Elon Musk: They hate me because DOGE is being effective. “DOGE is getting rid of a lot of waste and fraud that people on the left were taking advantage of. The single biggest thing that they're worried about is that DOGE is going to turn off fraudulent payments of entitlements…

Elon Musk: Honesty is the best policy. “I think it's very important that AIs are trained to be truthful and not trained to be politically correct. Political correctness is often simply not true. That means you're programming AIs to lie. I think that will backfire very badly. I…

Prince Alwaleed: Elon Musk has proven to be a leader in each industry he gets into.  “He's a leader in electric vehicles, with Tesla. He's a leader in space. Now, almost 98% of all the satellites of the whole world, they are launched with his company SpaceX.  You have…

Elon Musk to CEOs: Get out there on the goddamn front line! “There's a lot of talented people at SpaceX and Tesla. I think the morale is good. I find that if I am engrossed in the details of the issues, this does not result in them feeling worse, but feeling better. In my…

Elon Musk: “Kids are awesome. You guys should all have kids!”

Elon Musk: The Teslas you can buy today will soon drive themselves. “In a few months, Tesla will release unsupervised full self-driving. The cars will be driving around by themselves with no people in them. We'll start that in Austin in June, and then we'll rapidly expand that…

Elon Musk: Up until modern times, if you were stronger, you were right. Now, we've flipped it to if you're weaker, you're right. But neither is true. You have to look at morals in the absolute.

Elon Musk: Merit and freedom are noble and important principles. We're trying to restore them. “The reforms that we're getting done in D.C., thanks to President Trump and his great team, are really profound. The goal is very simple. It's to restore merit and freedom. That's what…

Elon Musk: George Soros figured out how to hack the system. “George Soros is like a system hacker. He figured out how to hack the system. These days he's pretty old, but he's a genius at arbitrage. He figured out that you could leverage a small amount of money to create a…