The Collection
Questions he has answered,
in his own words.
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Elon Musk once remarked that he is asked the same questions so often he could simply point to “answer 27.” This is that index: — answers drawn from his posts and recorded interviews, each with its date and source. Choose a subject.
Index of Subjects
About
About this archive
What Elon Said is an unofficial, fan-made archive. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Elon Musk or any of his companies (including Tesla, SpaceX, X, xAI, Neuralink and The Boring Company).
Every entry pairs a question with Elon Musk’s public answer, the date he gave it, and a link to the original source: the post on X, or the recorded interview at the moment he answered. Nothing here is invented. Where the exact words could not be verified, the passage was left out.
How to read an entry
- Fact a statement of what is, or what happened.
- Opinion a view or judgement. These are also gathered under Opinions.
- Prediction an estimate about the future, shown with the date it was made. All are gathered under When Will, and cross-listed under their subject.
- Joke a joke, pun or deliberately funny remark (not sarcasm or insults). Gathered under Jokes.
Text set in quotation marks is his. Summaries and framing notes are marked as such and are not his words. Questions marked paraphrased restate the post he was replying to; questions marked asked are the question as put to him. Spoken quotes have filler words (um, uh) and stutters removed; nothing else is changed.
Type labels (fact, opinion, prediction, joke) were assigned by the editors, partly by rule, and may be imperfect. Corrections are welcome.
Sources and credits
- Posts on @elonmusk, read directly from X.
- Interview quotes and summaries from ElonsFAQ (licensed CC BY 4.0), each checked against a speaker-labelled transcript and, where available, YouTube captions.
- Answers collected by Answer27, with each quoted passage checked against the original post, captions or article.
- Posts filed by topic at ElonFAQs, read directly from X.
Data file: data/qa.json. Version 1.