Big part of the challenge to innovation is that people too easily resign themselves to dying.
We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.
Under perfect competition, in the long run no company makes an economic profit.
By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse résumé to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he's ready-for nothing in particular.
Forget startup companies. The next frontier is startup countries.
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.