You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.

A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.

Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race - we are a very unfair one.

Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.

The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.