Of the six people who started PayPal, four had built bombs in high school.
I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.
Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.
I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system.
What nerds miss is that it takes hard work to make sales look easy.
A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed. Education may be the only thing people still believe in in the United States. To question education is really dangerous. It is the absolute taboo. It's like telling the world there's no Santa Claus.