Wealth is just a byproduct. The most succesful companies are just highly efficient problem-solving algorithms

“A startup doesn’t have to be your life’s work, but if it is, you become much harder to defeat. You play the long game and you outlast everyone. Because practically everyone else is an opportunist by comparison.

“Cada oración tiene un sentido […], pero no toda oración muestra algo [apophantikós], sino sólo aquella que puede ser verdadera o falsa.”

Particular intelligence: the knowledge of time, place, and circumstance that no one else can hold

Cuando llega una etapa nueva y superior debe haber un pájaro aplastado en algún lugar

El sueño de la razon produce monstruos

Antes del barco, el mar es un límite. Después del barco, el mar es un universo de posibilidades

I tried to build a model of the economy that would be like a big engineering machine that I could manipulate or understand which levers led to which flows of this or that. That was a fool’s game

Quality time demands quantity time

Si matas a una cucaracha eres un héroe. Si matas una mariposa eres malo. La moral tiene criterios estéticos