If you leave a bunch of eleven-year-olds to their own devices, what you get is Lord of the Flies. - Paul Graham

But here there is another layer that tends to obscure the underlying reality. In a company, the work you do is averaged together with a lot of other people’s.

One of the most interesting (and also frightening) things about AI is how difficult it is to predict what will happen. My kids ask me what's going to happen, and all I can say is that there will be huge changes, and I can't predict what they'll be.

One of the things that surprised me about YC is how long we continue to advise founders. We thought we'd just help them get started and then hand them over to later stage investors, but in fact we're still talking to founders 10 years in.