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“Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing.” —PAOLA ANTONELLI, curator of architecture and design, Museum of Modern Art”
― A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
― A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
“I worry there is something broken in our generation,
there are too many sad eyes on happy faces.”
― Love Her Wild
there are too many sad eyes on happy faces.”
― Love Her Wild
“What he knew, what he had discovered tonight, was that his recap
tured love of existence had not been given back to him by the retun
of his desire for her-_but that the desire had returned after he had
regained his world, the love, the value and the sense of his woris
and that the desire was not an answer to her body, but a celebralis
of himself and of his will to live.
& He did not know it, he did not think of it, he was past the ped
if words, but in the moment when he tell' the response of her had
'called toe, tolt also the unadmitted* knowiedel that Prat which De »
sachet bier depravity was her highest Virtuege,his capacity of Des
feel the joy of being, as he felt it.”
―
tured love of existence had not been given back to him by the retun
of his desire for her-_but that the desire had returned after he had
regained his world, the love, the value and the sense of his woris
and that the desire was not an answer to her body, but a celebralis
of himself and of his will to live.
& He did not know it, he did not think of it, he was past the ped
if words, but in the moment when he tell' the response of her had
'called toe, tolt also the unadmitted* knowiedel that Prat which De »
sachet bier depravity was her highest Virtuege,his capacity of Des
feel the joy of being, as he felt it.”
―
“From time to time, Musk will send out an e-mail to the entire company to enforce a new policy or let them know about something that’s bothering him. One of the more famous e-mails arrived in May 2010 with the subject line: Acronyms Seriously Suck: There is a creeping tendency to use made up acronyms at SpaceX. Excessive use of made up acronyms is a significant impediment to communication and keeping communication good as we grow is incredibly important. Individually, a few acronyms here and there may not seem so bad, but if a thousand people are making these up, over time the result will be a huge glossary that we have to issue to new employees. 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. That needs to stop immediately or I will take drastic action—I have given enough warnings over the years. Unless an acronym is approved by me, it should not enter the SpaceX glossary. If there is an existing acronym that cannot reasonably be justified, it should be eliminated, as I have requested in the past. For example, there should be no “HTS” [horizontal test stand] or “VTS” [vertical test stand] designations for test stands. Those are particularly dumb, as they contain unnecessary words. A “stand” at our test site is obviously a *test* stand. VTS-3 is four syllables compared with “Tripod,” which is two, so the bloody acronym version actually takes longer to say than the name! The key test for an acronym is to ask whether it helps or hurts communication. An acronym that most engineers outside of SpaceX already know, such as GUI, is fine to use. It is also ok to make up a few acronyms/contractions every now and again, assuming I have approved them, eg MVac and M9 instead of Merlin 1C-Vacuum or Merlin 1C-Sea Level, but those need to be kept to a minimum.”
― Elon Musk: Inventing the Future
― Elon Musk: Inventing the Future
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