Elon Musk says

“Constantly think about how you could be doing things better.”

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Engineering Quotes Elon Musk about Engineering

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“Science is discovering the essential truths about what exists in the Universe, engineering is about creating things that never existed.”

“Like a rocket is just a giant engineering compromise, and you just have to choose where you're gonna eat the pain and you can choose it in propulsion. You can choose it in structures. You know, where is the bit that's gonna destroy your life?”

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“One of the biggest mistakes we made was trying to automate things that are super easy for a person to do, but super hard for a robot to do.”

“If you love testing, you should love shipping even more. It's the test of all tests.”

“I take the position that I'm always to some degree wrong, and the aspiration is to be less wrong.”

“Expectations are the enemy here — they limit the number of great landing spots, and make the idealized one impossibly hard. Relax your expectations, and hundreds of positive possibilities open up.”

“Err on the side of do. The tendency to put off, push away, or otherwise delay is strong. No. Act and move on. And act again if you have to — most decisions are temporary, anyway.”

“Most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a day - and overestimate what they can accomplish in a year.”

“I've said many times: prototypes are easy, production is hard.”

“Every person in your company is a vector. Your progress is determined by the sum of all vectors.”

“It's a lot easier to build something bigger than smaller.”

“They were building a Ferrari for every launch, when it was possible that a Honda Accord might do the trick.”

“A rocket is a huge engineering compromise.”

“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”