The general strategy for real estate is to buy the worst property on the best street. - Kevin Kelly

A good sign that you are doing the kind of work you should be doing is that you enjoy the tedious parts that other people find torturous.

Don’t be the best. Be the only.

Nicholas Negroponte, head of MIT’s Media Lab, once quipped in the 1990s that the urinal in the men’s restroom was smarter than his computer because it knew he was there and would flush when he left, while his computer had no idea he was sitting in front of it all day.