the best way to create productivity is “to get rid of people. - Peter Thiel

The university system in 2014, it's like the Catholic Church circa 1514... You have this priestly class of professors that doesn't do very much work; people are buying indulgences in the form of amassing enormous debt for the sort of the secular salvation that a diploma represents. And what I think is also similar to the 16th century is that the Reformation will come largely from the outside.

On the inside, every individual should be sharply distinguished by her work.

Entrepreneurship: you put one dumb foot in front of the other while the world throws bricks at your head.