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When we are young we believe that we know everything, and so we believe that if we see no explanation for something, then no explanation exists. When we are older we realise that the whole universe works by a rhythm and a reason, even if we ourselves do not know it. It is only our own ignorance which appears to us as insanity.
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Only consider at what price you sell your own will: if for no other reason, at least for this, that you sell it not for a small sum.
A Selection From the Discourses of Epictetus
Epictetus
Venture capitalists have a list of danger signs to watch out for. Near the top is the company run by techno-weenies who are obsessed with solving interesting technical problems, instead of making users happy. In a startup, you’re not just trying to solve problems. You’re trying to solve problems that users care about. So I think you should make users the test, just as acquirers do. Treat a startup as an optimization problem in which performance is measured by number of users. As anyone who has tried to optimize software knows, the key is measurement. When you try to guess where your program is slow, and what would make it faster, you almost always guess wrong.
Hackers & Painters - Big Ideas From the Computer Age
Paul Graham
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