It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. As Henry Ford said many years earlier: "If I had listened to my customers, I would have built a faster horse." Inventions in general express Shannon entropy. They come from the supply side.

Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.

The crucial role of the rich in a capitalist economy is... to invest; to provide unencumbered and unbureaucratized cash.

A culture that does not aspire to the divine becomes obsessed with the fascination of evil, reveling in the frivolous, the depraved, and the bestial.

The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.

All small returns are noise. To transcend the noise and the risk, seek outsized returns from technological paradigms.

Entrepreneurship is the launching of surprises.