ELON CLIPS

Elon Musk: Twitter was essentially controlled by a nihilistic, anti-civilizational woke mob.

Joe Rogan: “The government had infiltrated [Twitter]. They were censoring speech, and until you bought it, we really didn't know the extent of it.

They were actively involved in censoring actual real news stories, real data. Real scientists, real professors silenced, expelled, kicked off the platform.

That chart that shows young kids, teenagers identifying as trans and non-binary literally stops dead when you bought Twitter, and starts falling off a cliff when people are allowed to have rational discussions and actually talk about it.”

Elon: “The reason for acquiring Twitter is because it was causing destruction at a civilizational level. I tweeted at the time that it's Wormtongue for the world.

Like Wormtongue from Lord of the Rings, where he would whisper these terrible things to the king so the king would believe things that weren't true. Unfortunately, the woke mob essentially controlled Twitter, and they were pushing a nihilistic, anti-civilizational mind virus to the world.”

Source: The Joe Rogan Experience #2404, October 31, 2025.

Elon Musk: My life feels surreal. It makes me believe in simulation theory.

“Yeah, I mean I didn't think it would be when I was young, but my life feels somewhat surreal. I can't believe these things are actually happening.

It makes me believe in simulation theory where it's like, well this like the things I'm doing are so preposterous that it's hard to believe they're real.

I mean we've got Starship, which is the largest, most powerful flying object ever made, and we intend to launch that more than once per hour.”

The Economist interview with Elon Musk, July 23, 2026.

Elon Musk: We could be the only life in the universe, so we must preserve consciousness.

“As far as we know it, we’re the only life. People think there’s aliens, but honestly, I haven’t seen any sign of aliens.

So, as far as we know, we’re the only life. We could be the only life. So let’s put it that way.

And we need to take the set of actions that are most likely to make the future good, and result in the continuance of consciousness as we know it.”

Source: The Mars Society Convention, October 16, 2020.

Elon Musk: If you need encouragement, don’t start a company.

“I remember a good friend of mine saying that starting a company is like eating glass and staring into the abyss.

So when people say, tell me, what can you do to encourage entrepreneurs to start companies, I’m like, if you need encouragement, don’t start a company.”

The Baron Investment Conference, November 4, 2022.

Elon Musk: 100-hour weeks are sometimes the difference between success and failure.

“I’ve done many stretches of 100-hour weeks, where roughly six hours per day is sleeping.

I would not recommend that. That’s for emergencies. It’s not all the time.

Sometimes it’s necessary for success, or to avoid failure. I don’t want to be there. It’s pain, but sometimes it’s the difference between success and failure.”

Source: In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen, April 8, 2024.