There’s no reason why the future should happen only at Stanford, or in college, or in Silicon Valley. - Peter Thiel

we need unusual individuals to lead companies beyond mere incrementalism.

Instead of violent wars there could be violent video games. Instead of heroic feats, there could be thrilling amusement park rides. Instead of serious thought, there could be intrigues of all sorts as if in a soap opera. It is a world where people spend their lives amusing themselves to death.

The essential first step is to think for yourself. Only by seeing our world anew, as fresh and strange as it was to the ancients who saw it first, can we both re-create it and preserve it for the future.