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.

Remember that you are a Black Swan.

Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific 'evidence'.

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.

At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.

Love without sacrifice is like theft