Quotes

“Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money. ”

Nat Friedman

“If you're thinking without writing, you only think you're thinking.”

Leslie Lamport

“You can change the software running in your head that was put there by others. ”

Elon Musk

“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”

Jane Goodall

“The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.”

Peter Thiel

“If two persons equal in judgement play for a considerable sun, he that loves money most shall lose; his anxiety for the success of the game confounds him. ”

Benjamin Franklin

“Beware of ideas that, as a consequence of believing in them, make you feel superior to other people”

Ilya Sustkever

“Yes you are cool and clever, you can go to bed now.”

Chad Hurley

“Teaching is more than sharing knowledge. You have to remove the obstacles in people's way. ”

Stephen Schwarzman

“Stoop, young man, stoop—as you go through this world—and you'll miss many hard thumps. ”

Cotton Mather to Ben Franklin

“Find your people”

Jessica Livingston

“Find a kind of work that you're so interested in that you'll learn to do it better than AI can.”

Paul Graham

“Safety and certainly kills the soul”

Ilya Sutskever

“Shut up and build.”

Chad Hurley

“If you’re ambitious, expect to outgrow people. Some will resent you for it. That’s fine — you weren’t building your life to fit inside theirs.”

Alexis Ohanian

“Before getting swept up in the competitions that define so much of life, ask yourself whether you even want the prize on offer.”

Peter Thiel

“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”

Elon Musk

“Ask yourself who you’d want to spend the last day of your life with and then meet with them as often as you can. ”

Warren Buffet

“Eminence is like a suit: it impresses the wrong people, and it constrains the wearer.”

Paul Graham

“I heard 100 no’s a day for 6 years straight.”

Travis Kalanick.