A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.

All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.

When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.

Those who were unlucky in life in spite of their skills would eventually rise. The lucky fool might have benefited from some luck in life; over the longer run he would slowly converge to the state of a less-lucky idiot. Each one would revert to his long-term properties.

Only the autodidacts are free.