I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it?

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

Expose yourself to as much as possible. Attend conferences no one else is attending. Read books no one else is reading. Talk to people no one else is talking to.

Long-term goals are dangerous. They limit you. They hinder you from reacting to new conditions.

The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.

I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.

Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.

It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.

I have a broad range of interests, so I'll always be working on something.

If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea.

Sometimes Plan B can have the same desired outcome, but a different path for getting there.

Where true dignity and real freedom are undermined, real self least exists!

Count your smiles, not your frowns.

As soon as she was ready for work, she called out to Eric's closed door. "Anything in particular you want for breakfast?" "Yeah, " he said, heading for the door. "But I don't think it's on the menu.

In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.

To me there's a difference between success and satisfaction. A lot of people have success and no satisfaction. I'm after satisfaction. I

I like cars that are ahead of their times, and that were noble failures because they were built to a higher standard than the consumer needed. Cars like the Wills Sainte Claire or the Duesenberg.

A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.

All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper called the Plague; but that I have allthe plagues of old age, and of a shattered carcase.

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft.