Quotes

Addiction is a progressive narrowing of the things that bring you pleasure. Happiness is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure.

Today you spot AI by looking at the least human behavior, tomorrow you’ll tell by 'too much human.'

If you make a conscious effort to think of startup ideas, the ideas you come up with will not merely be bad, but bad and plausible-sounding, meaning you’ll waste a lot of time on them before realizing they’re bad.

I’m told there’s a lot of stigma attached to failing in other places—in Europe, for example. Not here. In America, companies, like practically everything else, are disposable.

I’ve been everything. But whatever I do, all that stuff is just still there. Just aching away. So here I am, fixing a hole.

It doesn’t matter too much what you are doing, as long as you are doing something you love. If you love too many things - just start with one of them. It doesn’t matter which.

It turns out that not everything in life makes sense.

If you are looking for something, but you don’t know what you are looking for, then stop looking and think about what it is you are looking for.

Stay out of that head. Be as close to reality as possible. If it’s theoretic: make it real; use examples, real data.

Religion is based on scripture written by men thousands of years ago. Those beliefs can’t be changed or challenged. They’re fixed. In science, great thinkers have written things very long ago, but every generation improves upon them. The words are not holy. Einstein is a brilliant man, but he’s not our god; he’s one step in the evolution of knowledge, but we always continue to step forward.

Janie’s a pretty typical teenager. Angry, insecure, confused. I wish I could tell her that’s all going to pass, but I don’t want to lie to her.

LLMs and evolution: Both don’t follow any higher logic intrinsically, but still, what they do seems intelligent.