Movies

Office Space
Three office workers strike back at their evil employers by hatching a hapless attempt to embezzle money.
Idiocracy
To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a civilization so dumbed-down that they're the smartest people around.

Elon Musk
Entrepreneur, Scientist
Watch the opening scene of Idiocracy.
When I ask my friends why they’re not yet having kids (very few are), it sounds exactly like the movie.

Godzilla vs. Kong
In a time when monsters walk the Earth, humanity’s fight for its future sets Godzilla and Kong on a collision course that will see the two most powerful forces of nature on the planet collide in a spectacular battle for the ages.

Elon Musk
Entrepreneur, Scientist
Godzilla vs Kong is so amaze much wow!
Most insane movie I’ve ever seen!
Love letter to conspiracy theorists!
And yet heartwarming in the end.

Top Gun
A heart-pounding combination of action, music and incredible aerial photography helped make Top Gun the blockbuster hit. of 1986. Top Gun takes a look at the danger and excitement that awaits every pilot at the Navy's prestigious fighter weapons school. Tom Cruise is superb as Lt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a daring young flyer who's out to become the best. And Kelly McGillis sizzles as the civilian instructor who teaches Maverick a few things you can't learn in a classroom.

Elon Musk
Entrepreneur, Scientist
Original Top Gun is a great movie. Just rewatched. Looking forward to seeing the sequel.

Risky Business
Meet Joel Goodson, an industrious, college-bound 17-year-old and a responsible, trustworthy son. However, when his parents go away and leave him home alone in the wealthy Chicago suburbs with the Porsche at his disposal he quickly decides he has been good for too long and it is time to enjoy himself. After an unfortunate incident with the Porsche Joel must raise some cash, in a risky way.

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Elon Musk's Favorite Movies
Here is a list of Elon Musk's favorite movies. Enjoy!

Elon Musk
Entrepreneur, Scientist
Here is a list of Elon Musk's favorite movies. Enjoy!

Tropic Thunder
Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. lead an ensemble cast in 'Tropic Thunder,' an action comedy about a group of self-absorbed actors who set out to make the most expensive war film. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.

Videodrome
As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.

Elon Musk
Entrepreneur, Scientist
Який фільм тобі найбільше запам'ятався з того курсу або ж який вразив тебе найбільше? - "Відеодром".
Us (2019)
Directed by Jordan Peele. With Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker. A family's serene beach vacation turns to chaos when their doppelgängers appear and begin to terrorize them.

Elon Musk
Entrepreneur, Scientist
Like the movie Us. Scary … but also empathetic.

Gaslight
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Books

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
From the middle of the second century CE, The Roman Empire faced increasing Germanic tribe infiltration along the Danubian and Rhine borders, and internal political chaos. Without efficient imperial succession, Romans in from the third century set up generals as emperors, who were quickly deposed by rival claimants. Facilitating further territorial losses to Barbarian tribes, this continued until Diocletian (r. 284-305). He and Constantine (324-337) administratively reorganized the empire, engineering an absolute monarchy. Cultivating a secluded imperial tenor, Constantine the Great patronized Christianity, particularly in his new city Constantinople, founded on the ancient site of Byzantium. Christianization, in the Hellenized and Mediterranean cities and among certain Barbarian newcomers, proceeded with imperial support, and became the state religion under Theodosius (r. 379-95).

Elon Musk
Entrepreneur, Scientist
The actual Roman Empire, especially the decline & fall.
The 1946 edition of Gibbon has the best book spine art I’ve ever seen.

Destined for War
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR | SHORT-LISTED FOR THE 2018 LIONEL GELBER PRIZE | NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: FINANCIAL TIMES * THE TIMES (LONDON) * AMAZON “Allison is one of the keenest observers of international affairs around.”— JOE BIDEN, former vice president of the United States China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants. The reason is Thucydides’s Trap: when a rising power threatens to displace a ruling one, violence is the likeliest result. Over the past five hundred years, these conditions have occurred sixteen times; war broke out in twelve. Today, as an unstoppable China approaches an immovable America, and both Xi Jinping and Donald Trump promise to make their countries “great again,” the seventeenth case looks grim. A trade conflict, cyberattack, Korean crisis, or accident at sea could easily spark a major war. In Destined for War, eminent Harvard scholar Graham Allison masterfully blends history and current events to explain the timeless machinery of Thucydides’s Trap—and to explore the painful steps that might prevent disaster today. “[A] must-read book in both Washington and Beijing.”— NIALL FERGUSON, BOSTON GLOBE “[Allison is] a first-class academic with the instincts of a first-rate politician.”— BLOOMBERG NEWS “[Full of] wide-ranging, erudite case studies that span human history . . . [A] fine book.”— NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Elon Musk
Entrepreneur, Scientist
Again, could not recommend this book more. Audio version is great.

The Capitalist Manifesto
Marx and Engels were right when they observed in the Communist Manifesto that free markets had in a short time created greater prosperity and more technological innovation than all previous generations combined. A century and a half later, all the evidence shows that capitalism has lifted millions and millions from hunger and poverty. Today's story about global capitalism, shared by right-wing and left-wing populists, but also by large sections of the political and economic establishment, does not deny that prosperity has been created, but it says it ended up in far too few hands. This in turn has made it popular to talk about the global economy as a geopolitical zero-sum game, where we have to fight to control new innovations, introduce trade barriers and renationalize value chains. While, more broadly, capitalism is accused of fueling glaring inequality, populist revolts, climate change and China's global conquest. In this incisive and passionate investigation, Johan Norberg instead states the case for capitalism and the vital role played by the free market in today's uncertain world. Ultimately, he argues that that a move away from global capitalism would not only squeeze the growth out of the economy but also deepen an already large social exclusion for the vulnerable - for the world's poor, it would be a killing blow.

Elon Musk
Entrepreneur, Scientist
This book is an excellent explanation of why capitalism is not just successful, but morally right, especially chapter 4

How To Scam
This book is a necessary read both for persons who see a living through scamming and for persons who want to avoid scammers. Failure to read this book is failure to get rich quick or avoid scammers. This is a book for educational purpose. Get rich by reading it now or don't read it and get scammed. The choice is yours.

Elon Musk
Entrepreneur, Scientist
Ordered “How to Scam” book months ago but still not arrived. Starting to think it could be … but no I’m sure it’s coming soon.

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Elon Musk Books: 6 Recommended Reads
Here is a list of books that Elon Musk has read in recent months. Enjoy!

Elon Musk
Entrepreneur, Scientist
Here is a list of books that Elon Musk has read in recent months. Enjoy!

The Quickening
'Does the world seem right, to you?'Years ago, Dana Mayer had a vision of a better world: one where women are in charge. Now her manifesto, The Quickening, has established the rules for a new order, designed to elevate and protect women. A genteel and peaceful society that prioritises nature, good manners and aesthetics. Of course, in order for women to maintain control, the freedoms of men have been necessarily limited. Arthur Alden loves Dana Mayer but hates the world she has created. But can he find a way to resist, without losing everything? And with Dana intent on making men pay reparations for their past crimes, can Arthur be allowed to live without punishment?

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
An all-encompassing guide to skeptical thinking from podcast host and academic neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine Steven Novella and his SGU co-hosts, which Richard Wiseman calls "the perfect primer for anyone who wants to separate fact from fiction." It is intimidating to realize that we live in a world overflowing with misinformation, bias, myths, deception, and flawed knowledge. There really are no ultimate authority figures-no one has the secret, and there is no place to look up the definitive answers to our questions (not even Google). Luckily, The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe is your map through this maze of modern life. Here Dr. Steven Novella-along with Bob Novella, Cara Santa Maria, Jay Novella, and Evan Bernstein-will explain the tenets of skeptical thinking and debunk some of the biggest scientific myths, fallacies, and conspiracy theories-from anti-vaccines to homeopathy, UFO sightings to N- rays. You'll learn the difference between science and pseudoscience, essential critical thinking skills, ways to discuss conspiracy theories with that crazy co- worker of yours, and how to combat sloppy reasoning, bad arguments, and superstitious thinking. So are you ready to join them on an epic scientific quest, one that has taken us from huddling in dark caves to setting foot on the moon? (Yes, we really did that.) DON'T PANIC! With The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe, we can do this together. "Thorough, informative, and enlightening, The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe inoculates you against the frailties and shortcomings of human cognition. If this book does not become required reading for us all, we may well see modern civilization unravel before our eyes." -- Neil deGrasse Tyson "In this age of real and fake information, your ability to reason, to think in scientifically skeptical fashion, is the most important skill you can have. Read The Skeptics' Guide Universe; get better at reasoning. And if this claim about the importance of reason is wrong, The Skeptics' Guide will help you figure that out, too." -- Bill Nye

Storm of Steel
'As though walking through a deep dream, I saw steel helmets approaching through the craters. They seemed to sprout from the fire-harrowed soil like some iron harvest ...'Storm of Steel is one of the greatest works to emerge from the catastrophe of the First World War. A memoir of astonishing power, savagery and ashen lyricism, it illuminates like no other book the horrors but also the fascination of total war, presenting the conflict through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier. As an account of the terrors of the Western Front and of the sickening allure that made men keep fighting on for four long years, Storm of Steel has no equal.

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
For fans of Artemis—the visionary tour de force from “one of the grand masters of science fiction” (The Wall Street Journal).Widely acknowledged as one of Robert A. Heinlein's greatest works, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress rose from the golden age of science fiction to become an undisputed classic—and a touchstone for the philosophy of personal responsibility and political freedom. A revolution on a lunar penal colony—aided by a self-aware supercomputer—provides the framework for a story of a diverse group of men and women grappling with the ever-changing definitions of humanity, technology, and free will—themes that resonate just as strongly today as they did when the novel was first published.The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress gives readers an extraordinary, thought-provoking glimpse into the mind of Robert A. Heinlein, who, even now, “shows us where the future is” (Tom Clancy).

Elon Musk
Entrepreneur, Scientist
As described in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (great book), a linear accelerator would be great for the moon.
Earth’s gravity is too high & atmosphere too dense for accelerators to be a good solution vs reusable boosters imo.

Masters of Doom
Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to co-create the most notoriously successful game franchises in history—Doom and Quake—until the games they made tore them apart. Americans spend more money on video games than on movie tickets. Masters of Doom is the first book to chronicle this industry’s greatest story, written by one of the medium’s leading observers. David Kushner takes readers inside the rags-to-riches adventure of two rebellious entrepreneurs who came of age to shape a generation. The vivid portrait reveals why their games are so violent and why their immersion in their brilliantly designed fantasy worlds offered them solace. And it shows how they channeled their fury and imagination into products that are a formative influence on our culture, from MTV to the Internet to Columbine. This is a story of friendship and betrayal, commerce and artistry—a powerful and compassionate account of what it’s like to be young, driven, and wildly creative. “To my taste, the greatest American myth of cosmogenesis features the maladjusted, antisocial, genius teenage boy who, in the insular laboratory of his own bedroom, invents the universe from scratch. Masters of Doom is a particularly inspired rendition. Dave Kushner chronicles the saga of video game virtuosi Carmack and Romero with terrific brio. This is a page-turning, mythopoeic cyber-soap opera about two glamorous geek geniuses—and it should be read while scarfing down pepperoni pizza and swilling Diet Coke, with Queens of the Stone Age cranked up all the way.”—Mark Leyner, author of I Smell Esther Williams
TV Shows

Neon Genesis Evangelion
At the turn of the century, the Angels returned to Earth, seeking to wipe out humanity in an apocalyptic fury. Devastated, mankind's last remnants moved underground to wait for the day when the Angels would come back to finish the job. Fifteen years later, that day has come... but this time, humanity is ready to fight back with terrifying bio-mechanical weapons known as the Evangelions. Watch as Shinji, Rei, Asuka and the rest of the mysterious shadow agency Nerv battle to save earth from total annihilation.

Twin Peaks
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.

Elon Musk
Entrepreneur, Scientist
Elon Musk retweeted picture of cherry with quote "Twin Peaks" referring to the moment when Audrey Horne knots a cherry.

Black Mirror
A contemporary British re-working of The Twilight Zone with stories that tap into the collective unease about our modern world.
Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone - a black mirror of our 21st Century existence.

The Witcher
Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster-hunter for hire, journeys toward his destiny in a turbulent world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.

Knight Rider
Michael Long, an undercover police officer, is shot while investigating a case and left for dead by his assailants. He is rescued by Wilton Knight, a wealthy, dying millionaire and inventor who arranges life-saving surgery, including a new face and a new identity--that of Michael Knight. Michael is then given a special computerized and indestructible car called the Knight Industries Two Thousand (nicknamed KITT), and a mission: apprehend criminals who are beyond the reach of the law. The series depicts Michael's exploits as he and KITT battle the forces of evil on behalf of the Foundation for Law and Government.

Elon Musk
Entrepreneur, Scientist
That car seemed so advanced when I watched that show as a kid! ♥️ Knight Industries Two Thousand

Breaking Bad
When Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.

Nathan For You
Self-proclaimed business expert, writer, director and comedian Nathan Fielder helps real small businesses turn a profit with marketing tactics that no ordinary consultant would dare to attempt. From driving foot traffic to an off-the-strip souvenir shop by using Hollywood flair and a Johnny Depp impersonator, to creating a rebate that can only be redeemed by climbing a mountain, to founding a coffee shop called "Dumb Starbucks,” Nathan has always gone to the limit to make his ideas come to life. With his unorthodox approach to problem solving, Nathan’s genuine efforts to do good often draw the real people he encounters into an experience far beyond what they signed up for.

Elon Musk
Entrepreneur, Scientist
Worth watching "Nathan for You" on Comedy Central, particularly the "Dumb Starbucks" and "Mechanic/Realtor" episodes

Westworld
A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.

Elon Musk
Entrepreneur, Scientist
Some of the future episodes of Westworld feature my ex. Talulah does a great job of playing a deadly sexbot :) No irony or uhh "shade" meant here. T's character is excellent and well-played. Worth seeing.

Death Note
Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But will Light succeed in his noble goal, or will the Death Note turn him into the very thing he fights against?

Elon Musk
Entrepreneur, Scientist
Hey @elonmusk got any recommendations for an anime to watch? - Death Note

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Elon Musk Favorite Shows
The shows that I watch -- South Park, Daily Show and Colbert Report -- those are sort of my main three ones -- they just capture a little bit of essence of America in both a good and a bad way.

Elon Musk
Entrepreneur, Scientist
The shows that I watch -- South Park, Daily Show and Colbert Report -- those are sort of my main three ones -- they just capture a little bit of essence of America in both a good and a bad way.
Goods

Ben & Jerry's - Vermont's Finest Ice Cream, Non-GMO - Fairtrade - Cage-Free Eggs - Caring Dairy - Responsibly Sourced Packaging, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Pint (8 Count)
How do you like your euphoria? There are so many ways to enjoy Ben & Jerry's. We cover our bases with good old chocolate and award-winning vanilla, but then go so much further, with more than 60 flavors to satisfy every bowl out there. Go ahead, give it a swirl.... Ben & Jerry's colorful pints are recognizable all over the world, but in the early days, you could only get Ben & Jerry's in cups and cones at the Scoop Shop in Burlington, Vermont. Ben had the genius idea to pack their iconic ice cream flavors into pint-sized packages to sell in grocery stores. The rest is history! Today, we still pack all 16 ounces full of the euphoric chunks and swirls we're known for.. Ben & Jerry's operates on a three-part mission that aims to create linked prosperity for everyone that's connected to our business: suppliers, employees, farmers, franchisees, customers, and neighbors alike.. Values-Led Sourcing - Non-GMO, Cage-Free Eggs, Fairtrade, Responsibly Sourced Packaging, Caring Dairy

Elon Musk
Entrepreneur, Scientist
Ben & Jerry’s cookie dough is also next-level. Can’t have that in the house. It’s too good!

Batman: The War Years 1939-1945: Presenting over 20 classic full length Batman tales from the DC comics vault! (DC Comics: The War Years)

Elon Musk
Entrepreneur, Scientist
I read every comic in the store and I like
obviously the the Batman Superman stuff

Occupy Mars Original Space Gift Black Mug
We printed and shipped this Mug in the USA. This Mug was made used only premium material, high quality before shipping.. Please only buy from Pure's Designs, any other sellers who sell our products are all considered as counterfeit and we will not insure any guarantee for products that are not made and sold by us.. Printed in the USA, designs are applied with professional ink and mordern technology which resulting in the best possible colorfastness. Choose the best gift at a very affordable price point.. This is the Perfect Mug for Birthday, Holiday. Great option for anyone who loves movies,funny quotes,slogan,books,? Available 11oz and 15oz mug size.

NUKE MARS Shirt Nuke-Mars -T-shirt
Who will win the Race in Space to Mars? Mission to Mars to inhabit and terraform the planet. The Solar System is our target and X marks the spot.. Perfect for kids the junior astronaut, astronomer, teachers and scientists. Great for fans of astronomy, rockets, rocketry, model rockets, and the search for aliens or alien life.. Lightweight, Classic fit, Double-needle sleeve and bottom hem