Category: Notes

I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don’t know the other side’s argument better than they do.

– Charlie Munger

Free will exists in situations in which people who are similar to each other make different choices.

– Albert Wenger

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded – here and there, now and then – are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people.

– Robert Heinlein

If you can properly phrase the question, then the answer is the easy part.

– Elon Musk

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

– Rosa Luxemburg

The best startups almost have to start as side projects, because great ideas tend to be such outliers that your conscious mind would reject them as ideas for companies.

– Paul Graham

If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.

– Peter Thiel

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness.

– Henry Kissinger

Entrepreneurs innovate. Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. It is the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. Innovation, indeed, creates a resource. There is no such thing as a ‘resource’ until man finds a use for something in nature and then endows it with economic value. Until then, every plant is a weed and every mineral just another rock.

– Peter Drucker