"Happiness is appreciation of the journey. Not obsession of the ends."

"Flaws in communication style are a feature not a bug." — Lex Friedman

"A mistake repeated more than once is a decision." -- Paulo Coelho

"Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."

"The variation between engineering output is so high that the driven engineers will always be underpaid, and driven towards founding companies."

"Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect." -- Raymond Joseph Teller

"Talent is developed in solitude, character in the rush of the world." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"An explained idea and a demonstration of the same idea often have little in common." -- Rick Rubin

"You escape your local maximum by remaining curious."

"We are only as good as the last feature we shipped."

"If you're efficient, you're doing it the wrong way. The right way is the hard way. The show was successful because I micromanaged it — every word, every line, every take, every edit, every casting. That's my way of life." -- Jerry Seinfeld

"Avoid using your past experience as definitive facts or imposition as constraints." -- Rasmus Andersson

"Luck is a function of surface area."

"Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets." -- Leonardo da Vinci

"Competence is how good you are when there is something to gain. Character is how good you are when there is nothing to gain. People will reward you for competence. But people will only love you for your character." – Mark Manson

"Success isn't an end state. Success is having the freedom to pursue the continual grind you most enjoy."

"What important truth do very few people agree with you on?"

"Sic Parvis Magna" -- Sir Francis Drake

"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art." -- Warhol

"Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself." -- Miles Davis

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect." -- Anaïs Nin