I think the boarding schools are like miniature versions of "Lord of the Flies."

Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus.

Make sure a certain percentage of the people that you're hiring are generalists so that you can be, kind of reconfigured in the workforce pretty easily.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

What I think Peter Thiel imagines is that Donald Trump has a policy, that Trump has an idea of what to do. haven't heard any of those ideas. All I hear is sloganeering, vitriol, personal attacks.

The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you.

It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.