The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

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

The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither

It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.

Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter--it is the only filter. If the subject is not interesting enough for me to look it up independently, for my own curiosity or purposes, and I have not done so before, then I should not be writing about it at all, period. It does not mean that libraries (physical and virtual) are not acceptable; it means that they should not be the source of any idea.

To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.

The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.