Making small changes to things that already exist might lead you to a local maximum, but it won’t help you find the global maximum. - Peter Thiel

If the tendency of monopoly businesses were to hold back progress, they would be dangerous and we’d be right to oppose them. But the history of progress is a history of better monopoly businesses replacing incumbents.

anyone would fight for things that matter; true heroes take their personal honor so seriously they will fight for things that don’t matter. This

Madness is rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule,” Nietzsche wrote (before he went mad).