Whatever the marketplace, if talented people are given resources, they're going to keep driving us to having better, simpler, cheaper solutions to problems.

People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that

Education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again.

Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.

Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.

Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private.