Engineering Quotes from Top-Engineers around the world.

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

“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

“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.”

—Jason Fried

“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?”

—Peter Beck

“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.”

—Jason Fried

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

—Peter Beck

“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.”

—Elon Musk

“The Best Part Is No Part...”

—Elon Musk

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

—Peter Beck

“A rocket is a huge engineering compromise.”

—Peter Beck

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

—Bill Gates

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

—Elon Musk

“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”

—Elon Musk

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

—Elon Musk

“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.”

—Elon Musk

“Never chase the next hot thing. Stop trying to chase the wave. You will never catch it. You always for the most part find out about that stuff too late. Instead, do what you are really passionate about, what you really love. That will position you before the wave even hits, and you will find out about whatever it is before the wave starts, before it gets hot, and that is how you take advantage.”

—Elon Musk

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

—Bill Gates

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

—Elon Musk

“If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.”

—Bill Gates

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

—Barack Obama

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

—Elon Musk

“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.”

—Elon Musk

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

—Elon Musk

“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.”

—Elon Musk

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

—Elon Musk

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

—Elon Musk

“Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.”

—Elon Musk

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

—Elon Musk