"Optimism, pessimism, fuck that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work." I got goose bumps reading Elon's response at the end of the article.
The thing I like most about the startup I work for: if anything goes wrong, everyone just objectively addresses what happened, where we are now, and what to do to move forward - an obsessive focus on the next step to success.
"Because it's there. Everest is the highest mountain in the world, and no man has reached its summit. Its existence is a challenge. The answer is instinctive, a part, I suppose, of man's desire to conquer the universe." - George Mallory
Why do people run marathons? It's a personal challenge. Hundreds of thousands of people do non-record breaking runs which are pain, suffering and followed by elation at success.
That he was the first was a big part of it, but the reality is remove the words "never been climbed" and the sentence still works. Climbing everest, running a marathon, [insert challenging sports thing here] - each person strives within their own measure and tries to exceed their own expectations.
Arabic by nature doesn't have many abbreviations like other languages because of it's lack of vowels, so abbreviations end up being a set a consonants that are hard to pronounce and don't sound "correct", so we don't use them often. The name "Daesh" is an exception, it's an abbreviation (although one letter gets changed a little bit) and it does sound "correct" but although it does contain the words Islamic and state, it doesn't have for an Arabic speaker like me the same effect as ISIS have for an English speaker
