I really focused on three things in high school - my company, basketball and my school work.

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.

Brokenness a result of bitterness.

And as your writing evolves, what you need and get from it evolves.

He who recollects a thing by which he was once pleased desires to possess it in the same circumstances as when he first was pleased by it. He who was never pleased is doomed to an eternal hard-on.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

I think it's important for the viewers at home to have something accessible and attainable.

Meat is a status dish in which the sizzle counts for more than the nutritional worth.

There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.

We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?

One has to define very clearly what one's objectives are, determine in advance how much one is prepared to pay to achieve that objective and then act accordingly.