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“No, Dad, I’m not interested in getting a Ph.D., I want to make money.”
― John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

“Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.”
― Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery

“So go on, get angry. But keep your mouth shut and go do your work.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he’ll come up with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came in; ask him to make something that will massacre Germans, and he turns into Thomas Fucking Edison.”
― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

“If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.”
― Mario Andretti

“If you aren’t embarrassed by the first version of your product, you shipped too late.”
― Reid Hoffman

“If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable