American government is not dominated by engineers, it is dominated by lawyers. Engineers are interested in substance and building things; lawyers are interested in process and rights and getting the ideology correctly blended. And so there is sort of no really concrete plan for the future.
Peter ThielBy the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse rรฉsumรฉ to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he's ready-for nothing in particular.
Peter ThielIf they don't go to law school, bright college graduates head to Wall Street precisely because they have no real plan for their careers.
Peter ThielI do think Tim Cook is doing a very good job, I think he has almost impossibly big shoes to fill with Steve Jobs' departure. And so, that's the context always someone has to put things in. But, I do think that for the most part that Apple is at a point where it's much more focused on scale than on doing new things.
Peter Thiel