People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.

History doesn't crawl; it leaps.

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.

Please, don’t drive a school bus blindfolded.

Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.

My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism