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.”
