Students who don’t learn best by sitting still at a desk are made to feel somehow inferior, - Peter Thiel

Without technological change, if China doubles its energy production over the next two decades, it will also double its air pollution. If every one of India’s hundreds of millions of households were to live the way Americans already do — using only today’s tools — the result would be environmentally catastrophic. Spreading old ways to create wealth around the world will result in devastation, not riches.

the best problems to work on are often the ones nobody else even tries to solve.

Amazon made its first 10x improvement in a particularly visible way: they offered at least 10 times as many books as any other bookstore.