"Possibly, the most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize something that should not exist."
— Elon Musk

January 1, 1970

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Said while giving tour of Starbase to Tim Dodd (July 30, 2021), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t705r8ICkRw