The fact that this civil suit wasn't settled out of court before trial is absurd. The only reasonable explanation is that Musk views the trial as pure entertainment. He loves the attention he gets from the press and the opportunity it gives him to thumb his nose at the legal system.
"“There are a lot of things I say and not all of them have the same quality of thought,” Musk said, in what was likely the understatement of the decade."
tl;dr?<p>I'm in the middle of the article, and the best quote (from Musk) so far is:<p>> There are a lot of things I say and not all of them have the same quality of thought