Elon Musk says

“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.”

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“Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“A rocket is a huge engineering compromise.”

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

“Excessive use of made up acronyms is a significant impediment to communication […] No one can actually remember all these acronyms and people don’t want to seem dumb in a meeting, so they just sit there in ignorance. This is particularly tough on new employees.”

“The software engineering aspect of deep learning repos I've been watching closely is how they store, catalogue, override, manage and plumb hyperparameter configs. Have come to dislike argparse, YAMLs (too inflexible), and fully enumerated kwargs on classes/defs.”

—Andrej Karpathy

“Archimedes is the boringest engine that we can build in a lot of sense.”

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

“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.”

“The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.”

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

“I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.”

—Barack Obama