Hereâs a random collection of quotes that Iâm saving
âPeople can admit when theyâre logically wrong. They will never admit when theyâre emotionally wrong.â
â Paul Portesi
âMaking a mistake is a net positive if you learn more from it than it cost you.â
â Pedro Domingos
âAn idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity.â
â Terry A. Davis.
âFriends are better than money. Almost anything money can do, friends can do better. In so many ways a friend with a boat is better than owning a boat.â
â Kevin Kelly
âDonât try to maximize happiness. Minimize misery, and youâll be happy.â
â Paul Portesi
âIâd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.â
â Pablo Picasso
âIt is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.â
â Nassim Taleb
âSocial anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.â
â Stefan Molyneux
âEverybody on LinkedIn appears happy, smiling, wears a tie, and signals docility, conformity, and optimism while they rot inside.â
â Marin Zhelezov
âWhenever I see a woman whoâs happy, sheâs married. And whenever I see a man whoâs happy, heâs single.â
â Larry David
âA taste of freedom can make you unemployable.â
â Naval
âScience has emerged as new religion & citing âstudiesâ has become like quoting religious verses.â
â Zachariah Brown
âBig companies and repeat entrepreneurs struggle to go from zero to one because they refuse to restart at zero.â
â Naval
âTo gain status in the world, we do all we can to appear as if we had already gained it.â
â François de La Rochefoucauld
âNormies are nice in words but hateful in deeds. I am nice in deeds but for them I appear hateful in words. And they deserve it.â
â Marin Zhelezov
âTo make mistakes is human. To own your mistakes is divine. Nothing elevates a person higher than quickly admitting and taking personal responsibility for the mistakes you make and then fixing them fairly. If you mess up, fess up. Itâs astounding how powerful this ownership is.â
â Kevin Kelly
âThink of the process of inflation as a very tall ladder that has been set on fire from the bottom. If you donât climb fast enough, youâll eventually be consumed in flames.â
â Craig Rowland
âSuccess is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.â
â Nassim Taleb
âThose who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.â
â Stefan Molyneux
âI would gladly give up my life for two brothers or eight cousins.â
â John Haldane (geneticist)
âThe only part of you that hurts when youâre given the truth is the part that lives on lies.â
â Stefan Molyneux
âThe same traits needed for huge success are the same traits that increase the odds of failure, so we should be careful praising winners or criticizing failures because they often made similar decisions with different degrees of luck.â
â Morgan Housel
âA populist is a smart person pretending to be dumb, and a liberal is a dumb person pretending to be smart.â
â Norwegian saying
âI have a sworn duty to my shareholders to maximize profit.â
â Martin Shkreli
âSome of this decadeâs greatest heroes will never be known, and some of its most beloved people are basically shams.â
â Sam Bankman-Fried
âYou know how they say no two snowflakes are ever alike? Well, I donât think thatâs true. I think a lot of snowflakes are alike⌠and I think a lot of people are alike too.â
â Patrick Bateman
âEntertaining characters are often deeply flawed.â
â Pixar training video on the art of storytelling
âThe weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.â
â Nassim Taleb
âWhen someoneâs response is angrier than the question you asked warrants, they probably have something to hide. However, they may not only be hiding it from youâŚthey may also be hiding it from themselves.â
â Neil Strauss
âThe beauty of doing nothing is that you can do it perfectly. Only when you do something is it almost impossible to do it without mistakes. Therefore people who are contributing nothing to society, except their constant criticisms, can feel both intellectually and morally superiorâ
â Thomas Sowell
âThereâs nothing on the internet anymore. It has become like TV. They deplatformed all the interesting people.â
â Roosh V
âResearch shows itâs almost impossible to become a drug addict without having a prior history of childhood traumaâ
â Bessel van der Kolk
âWhy does it feel like the people most convinced they know the truth are the least likely to have actually found it?â
â Sharif Aly
âThe truth fears no investigation.â
â Unkown
âSomeone who has been employed for a while is giving you the evidence of submissionâ
â Nassim Taleb
âScream for attention and Iâll cover my ears. Whisper and I will listen.â
â Pedro Domingos
âI still have launch PTSD from early Falcon days. My limbic system twists my guts into a knot as we get closer to launch.â
â Elon Musk
âSchools should include a class called Truth Is Hard, where u get bombarded with examples of confused eyewitnesses, incorrect public outrages, studies that failed to replicate, super convincing arguments that fall apart with one additional fact u didnât expect, etc.â
â Aella
âThe more secrets you have, the less happy youâre going to be.â
â Naval
âLearned helplessness is when you have failed, lost, or got defeated so many times that you stop even trying.â
â Marin Zhelezov
âWhen something has no prestige, the people who like it are more likely to have honest motives.â
â Paul Graham
âMany women think that if they put out too quickly, their partner won’t respect them. This is not the case. It’s not about waiting for a certain quantity of time before having sex, it’s about waiting for a certain quality of connection.â
â Neil Strauss
âI use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.â
â Adolf Hitler
âPrescribing antidepressants without addressing the root cause is like spraying deodorant over a pile of shit.â
â Marin Zhelezov
âMy whole adult life has been a search for quiet. Iâve had 3 different buildings soundproofed.â
â Paul Graham
âNo school could teach being a great investor. It would be the most popular school with an impossibly high tuition.â
â Michael Burry
âNetflix could have been anything: personalized shampoo, custom dog food, one-of-a-kind baseball bats. I pitched all these ideas to my co-founder Reed Hastings on our daily commutes to work before we finally hit on the idea of video rental by mail.â
â Marc Randolph
âThough they may be composed of upstanding individuals, the structure of large organizations causes them to behave in ways that would be evil, if they were an individual person. So remember, whenever youâre dealing with a large organization, youâre also dealing with an evil one.â
â Paul Graham
âThe education of today is humiliating. It produces an inferiority complex and artificially lowers the powers of man. Its very organization sets a limit to knowledge well below the natural level. It supplies men with crutches when they could run on swift feet.â
â Maria Montessori
âPrivilege is all the problems you donât have to worry about, that other people do.â
â Christie Smythe
âYouâre only as smart as the smartest person in your community.â
â Jacob Lund Fisker
âI have always hated employment and the associated dependence on someone elseâs arbitrary opinion, particularly when much of whatâs done inside large corporations violates my sense of ethics.â
â Nassim Taleb
âRich people like quiet because quiet is better for thinking, and thinking is how you get rich.â
â Paul Graham
âI was always ready to share, but before external success, nobody cared to listen.â
â Naval
âNothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolutionâ
â Theodosius Dobzhansky
âMost people (and companies) need a near-death experience before they can really change.â
â Tony Fadell
âLots of people were in the right place at the right time but failed because they were the wrong person.â
â Rob Henderson
âLooking at a crowd of strangers brings me almost as much awe as looking at deep field images of the universe. Every person in the crowd is a galaxy of memories, dreams, hopes, fears, longing, sadness, regret, love.â
â Tim Urban
âA relationship is about inventing your own language. Youâve got the jokes, youâve got the songs, you have this anecdote thatâs going to make you laugh three years later. Itâs this language that you build. Thatâs what you mourn for when youâre losing someone you love. This language youâre not going to speak with anybody else.â
â Cèline Sciamma
âUniversity is a good place to drink, make friends, and discuss books, nothing else. But the education one gets there is way too commoditised.â
â Nassim Taleb
âIf you donât have or want kids, I generally donât care what you have to say about society. Youâre not part of its continuation.â
â Stefan Molyneux
âContrary to popular belief, it is the sexually busy Chads, not the sexually desperate and frustrated incels, who have the most misogynistic worldview.â
â Rolf Degen
âThe selfish reason to be ethical is that it attracts the other ethical people in the network.â
â Naval
âPersonally, I enjoy hanging out with a mix of young, old, foreign, uneducated, and weird people.â
â Jeremy Howard
âWeâve made life freer for individuals and more unstable for families. Weâve made life better for adults but worse for children.â
â David Brooks
March, 2023