“If the rules are such that you can’t make progress, then you have to fight the rules.”
― Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
― Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
“I think I have a pretty deep understanding of what Money actually is on a practical day to day basis because of paypal. right now, the money system for practical purposes is really a bunch of heterogeneous mainframes running old COBOL. Literally.”
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“If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion. There’s certain special skills, especially in advanced engineering, that are the limiting factor in creating new companies; we send these people home after training them in our graduate schools.”
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“If you do not like it then life is too short”
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“Money is an information system for labor allocation”
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