All designs are wrong, its just a matter of how wrong. — Elon Musk

"I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary," as Musk famously said in 2008. In the 15 years since, he has revolutionised electric transport, broken world records in space travel, become the wealthiest person in the world, and made more headlines in a week than most tech CEOs make in their careers."

"This notion though, that you can just sort of send checks out to everybody and things will be fine is not true, obviously. Some have this absurd view that the economy is like some magic horn of plenty… that just makes stuff. There’s a magic horn of plenty, and the goods and services, they just come from this magic horn of plenty. And then if somebody has more stuff than somebody else, it’s because they took more from this magic horn of plenty. Now let me just break it to the fools out there: If you don’t make stuff, there’s no stuff. If you don’t make the food, if you don’t process the food, if you don’t transport the food, medical treatment, getting your teeth fixed, there’s no stuff. We’ve become detached from reality. You can’t just legislate money and solve these things. If you don’t make stuff, there is no stuff."

"We [the United States] will coup whoever we want! Deal with it."

"We must pass the great filter!"

"Russias slant on the world appears to have penetrated Musks mind and he is by far Bellingcats most famous detractor. Bellingcats Twitter account has periodically disappeared from site searches and Musk himself often retweets conspiracy theories about the group."

"Musk isn’t promoting liberty; he’s using his power to privilege many of the worst voices in American life."