quotes

Language is just a user interface to ideas.
Great art is the expression of emotions through tools, rather than using tools to discover emotions.
Creativity is the act of making the obvious obvious before it's obvious.
Songs are pointers to memories.
Everything we are, everything we aspire to become, begins with our brain.
It's easy to spend a decade being busy and stressed every day, feeling like you're working hard and creating movement, but not actually moving forward. It's easy to get caught up in things that are urgent but unimportant, or in office politics and power games that don't matter.
What you cannot create, you do not understand - Build things from scratch.
Education is not the knowledge of facts, but the training of the mind to think.
The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.
Technology has given humanity superpowers. We can turn bits into atoms and atoms into bits. - Lux Capital
"I love winning, whereas some of the other guys are more into, 'I hate losing.'" - Roger Federer
Your eyes are the best camera you will ever use.
What a person is cannot be boiled down to a single word.
The most wonderful part of life is that you have the freedom to be and do whoever you are.
You start ambitious and then you scale down, or you just start small and then scale up.
If you limit yourself to observe the world, you'll see how restless your mind is. If you try and calm it down, it will only make things worse, but if you give it some time it will go appeasing, and when it does it leaves space to listen to more subtle things. Then your intuition starts to flourish and you begin to see things with greater clarity and live more in the present. Your mind stops racing so fast and you can see a tremendous dilatation of the present moment. You are able to see much more than you used to. It is a discipline: it takes practice. - Steve Jobs
Das, was entscheidet über Erfolg oder Misserfolg, ist nicht das Wie. - Thomas Tuchel
It's the height of egotism to say something can't happen just because we can't explain it.
Write to develop ideas, design to develop taste, build to develop vision.
As simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein
Consciousness is the biggest miracle of the universe.
Be the change you want to see.
Being uninformed in a field can be good; then you are forced to use first-principle thinking.
How we treat others is a reflection of how we treat ourselves... The inner world drives the outer.
You can do big things with small teams, but it's hard to do small things with big teams.
Being fulfilled and happy is not a complex science; it's the practice of being fully conscious.
The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it. - George Orwell
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him. - Ezra Pound
Every morning we are born again.
Serendipity happens to those who are not married to the outcomes, but to the process.
We have one life. But we don't need to be one person.
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you. - Steve Jobs
Each step on its own is easy; the hard thing is to keep walking.
The main barrier to learning is not intellectual — it's emotional. - How People Learn
If you want to be liked by everyone, sell ice cream. - Jeff Bezos
If you want to master something, teach it. - Richard Feynman
Technology is about creating a system for the task; biology is about doing the task to get the system that's needed. And so, sport is about doing things you can't do until you can.
What we think, we become. - Buddha
Be careful what you put in your mind; your subconscious feeds from everything, even from what you don't want. You can't control it. Thoughts are the most powerful element we can control.
The computer is the most remarkable tool we've ever come up with; it's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds. - Steve Jobs
Knowledge needs to be acted on to become power; so knowledge alone is no power. - Knowledge-execution gap
Proprietary technology must be at least ten times better than its closest substitute to lead to a real monopolistic advantage.
As you craft a plan to expand to adjacent markets, don't disrupt; avoid competition as much as possible. - Don't disrupt - Peter Thiel
Start with things that don't scale.
Nobody has it all.
Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. - Sun Tzu
The greatest artists are not dressed like ones.
The most valuable businesses of the coming decades will be built by entrepreneurs who seek to empower people rather than try to make them obsolete.
To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.
Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.
Don't waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people, unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful. - Marcus Aurelius
Believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path. - Steve Jobs
Habits are like highways in the brain; you should try to take a dirt road every now and then.
Let chaos reign and then find out what the minimum viable system of organization is.
Some of the most important traits of an individual in our epoch are skepticism, empiricism, noise filter, focused meditative life.
Technology is what makes humans superb.
AI has the craziest brain plasticity out there; it's connecting the brains and wisdom of all human knowledge.
You've traded the whole of your life for security. What is there left to secure?
Life is long; we just waste a lot of it. - On the Shortness of Life - Seneca
Making your happiness dependent on many variables that you can usually only set to be true in the future is the biggest mistake you can make if you want to live a blissful life.
Your job is never to manage people, but to manage processes and lead people.
Music is the only language used to express emotions in the first place.