The best business decisions come from a place of genuine insight about human nature and incentives, not from financial models. Most people optimize for the wrong things because they haven't thought carefully about what they actually want.

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.