They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)

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

Remember that you are a Black Swan.

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.

Ideas come and go, stories stay.

Information is bad for knowledge.