• "Instead of role models, ask: who are my anti-models?"
  • "Rather than wondering what will make me happy, ask: what is certain to make me miserable?"
  • "It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.”
  • "What can you not stand not doing?"
  • "It is easier to engineer than to reverse-engineer."