If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.

Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.

If my detractors knew me better they would hate me even more.

Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

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

Anything that provides you with very, very stable income, very stable conditions, maybe generally stable, that often, it masks real risks, risks of blow-ups.

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.