For the ancients, forecasting historical events was an insult to the God(s); for me, it is an insult to man—that is, for some, to science. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Steve Jobs: “People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.

Keeping ones distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man.

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.