Elon Musk says

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

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

“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.”

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

—Barack Obama

“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.”

“One of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask. Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy.”

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

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

“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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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?”

“The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.”

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