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Kelly said what he meant and meant what he said, and he couldn’t care less about who was offended. I remember attending one black-tie affair with him in late 1974 at which Barry Goldwater, a general in the Air Force Reserve, was being honored with an award, and half the Air Force high command was present. Kelly was asked to make a few remarks. He said: “I’ve never got in trouble making a speech on engineering. But over the years I’ve learned what not to say. I’m an expert at that. For instance, I will not say that if we had followed the policies of the man we are honoring tonight we would not have made such a shambles of the Vietnam War as we did. Nor would I say how stupid we were in the same war to take the guns out of our fighter aircraft and then send our pilots into combat with such a cost-saving training program that few of them had fired even a handful of air-to-air missiles before facing the enemy. And for gosh sakes, I won’t say that the Israeli air force using the same kind of U.S. aircraft against the same kind of MiGs scored about four times the victory ratios that we did, using better pilot training and tactics!”
Skunk Works
Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos
Paul: I asked Zuckerberg, actually, what question we could put on the Y Combinator application that would detect people like him. And he said, “When was the first time you realized things were broken and you wanted to fix them?
Interviews With the Masters
Robert Greene
One recipe for happiness is selective inattention and lethargy. The pain of a dollar lost is greater than the joy of a dollar gained, so the more you watch prices bounce around, the glummer you’ll be. Spend more time gathering information that bears on your investment’s value, rather than tracking the price. If news won’t matter in a year, skip it. Sometimes you will miss a real turning point. My permanent resolution is to read more books, annual reports, and publications like the Economist and to reduce emails and social media. It’s said that a good marriage begins with eyes wide open but continues with almost willful blindness to small flaws; the same applies to stocks. Why rush decisions? You might know more tomorrow.
Big Money Thinks Small
Joel Tillinghast
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