If you look at the dominant technologies today, you’ll find that most of them grew organically. - Paul Graham

If you’re in a job that feels safe, you are not going to get rich, because if there is no danger there is almost certainly no leverage.

For better or worse, the basis of popular culture now seems to be user-generated content like memes and videos. When I was a kid it was TV. That's a big change, from maximally centralized to maximally decentralized.

Any book that was required reading in an English class has been thereby spoilt for me. This is not true for classes in other subjects though.