25 opinions on Elon Musk. One differs. Who do you listening to?
Posted By RichC on December 31, 2025
I saw this on social media and thought it was worthy of archiving as we close out 2025 … and is a bit political … so beware. 😉
- Larry Page: “Elon is one of the people who genuinely understands physics and applies it.”
Sergey Brin: “Elon is someone who thinks extremely deeply about hard technical problems.”
- Eric Schmidt: “Elon is extremely smart. He thinks about problems at a fundamental physics level.”
- Satya Nadella: “Elon has a deep understanding of engineering trade-offs.”
- Yann LeCun: “He’s a very smart guy and I’m in awe of some of his projects.”
- Jeff Dean: “Elon Musk is extremely capable technically.”
- Andrew Ng: “Elon is clearly very smart and technically capable, even when I disagree with him.”
- Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Elon Musk understands engineering at a level that most CEOs do not.”
- Chris Hadfield: “Elon Musk is clearly very intelligent and serious about engineering.”
- Andrej Karpathy: “Elon has an incredible ability to reason from first principles. It’s very rare.”
- Tom Mueller: “He’s a super smart guy and he learns from talking to people. He’s so sharp, he just picks it up.”
- Jim Cantrell: “Elon taught himself rocket science faster than anyone I’ve ever seen. And I’ve been doing this my whole career.”
- Robert Zubrin: “Elon Musk is a brilliant engineer with an extraordinary ability to cut through nonsense.”
- George Church: “Elon Musk is extraordinarily intelligent and unusually well-read across sciences.”
- Vaclav Smil: “Elon Musk is a very intelligent engineer, though overly optimistic.”
- Miguel Nicolelis: “Elon Musk is a brilliant mind, even when he overreaches.”
- George Hotz: “Elon is actually very smart. People underestimate how technical he really is.”
- Sal Khan: “Elon Musk is a deeply intelligent person who genuinely understands the science behind what he’s building.”
- Mark Cuban: “Elon is very smart and ahead of the curve.”
- Naval Ravikant: “Elon Musk is operating at a different intellectual level.”
- Rodney Brooks: “Elon Musk is smart and technically literate, even if provocative.”
- Cory Doctorow: “Elon Musk is obviously very smart. That’s not in dispute.”
- Tim Urban: “Elon Musk is one of the deepest first-principles thinkers I’ve ever encountered.”
- Uday Kotak: “Elon Musk is a genius in the way he combines engineering with execution.”
… now contrast the above to what the “genius” (sarcasm) NY Rep Alexandria Ocasia-Cortez (AOC) thinks of Elon Musk.Who’s opinion do you trust more?
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