1. “… The open road, the dusty highway, the heath, the common, the hedgerows, the rolling downs! Camps, villages, towns, cities! Here to-day, up and off to somewhere else to-morrow! Travel, change interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that’s always changing!”
2. “Universe is big, but rendering complexity is not.”
3. “In fact, it got to the point where basically every conversation was the AI-slash-simulation conversation, and my brother and I finally agreed that we’d ban any such conversations if we’re ever in a hot tub. Because that really kills the magic.”
4. “…I want to go around my property, and set everything and everybody to rights, and swagger about and enjoy myself!”
5. “Of course, I don’t really care. I only want to give pleasure to you fellows. ‘Live for others!’ That’s my motto in life.”
6. “The last thing I need is to generate animosity, you know. It just is not helpful.”
7. “I’m from South Africa, you dumbass.”
8. “Don’t begin talking in that stiff and sniffy sort of way…”
9. “The results speak for themselves. Singapore is a very prosperous city and yet has very few electric cars.”
10. “… Yes, I’ve been a conceited old ass, I can quite see that…”
11. “Glorious, stirring sight! …The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here to-day — in next week to-morrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped — always somebody else’s horizon! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!”
12. “Nonetheless, his actions against me do not justify my actions against him, and for that I apologize… The fault is mine and mine alone.”
13. “I’m not a bit sorry or repentant really, so it’s no earthly good saying I am; now, is it?”
14. “Who do you think owns the press? Hello.”
15. "You don’t think it’s strange he hasn’t sued me? He was offered free legal services.”
16. “… O what a flowery track lies spread before me, henceforth! What dust-clouds shall spring up behind me as I speed on my reckless way!”
17. “Traffic is driving me nuts. Am going to build a tunnel-boring machine and just start digging…”
18. “… As for motor-cars, I’ve not been at all so keen about them since my last ducking in that river of yours.”
19. “Water level was actually very low & still (not flowing) — you could literally have swum to Cave 5 with no gear, which is obv how the kids got in.”
20. “The first tunnel is almost done.”
Elon Musk: 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 12, 14, 15, 17, 19, 20
Toad of Toad Hall: 1, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11, 13, 16, 18