The actual truth is that there are many more secrets left to find, but they will yield only to relentless searchers. - Peter Thiel

If you treat the future as something definite, it makes sense to understand it in advance and to work to shape it. But if you expect an indefinite future ruled by randomness, you’ll give up on trying to master it.

It was much easier to reach a few thousand people who really needed our product than to try to compete for the attention of millions of scattered individuals.

people overestimate the relative difficulty of science and engineering, because the challenges of those fields are obvious