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“If you think your initial market might be too big, it almost certainly is.”

Book:Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

This book explores the principles and strategies for creating successful startups and shaping the future of business and technology. more

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Peter Thiel

Peter Thiel is a prominent entrepreneur and venture capitalist, co-founder of PayPal, and a key figure in the tech industry. He is known for his early investment in Facebook and his role in shaping the modern venture capital landscape. more

“We should not knowingly allow any species or race to go extinct. And let us go beyond mere salvage to begin the restoration of natural environments, in order to enlarge wild populations and stanch the hemorrhaging of biological wealth. There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.”

Should Stills Age Purpose Order Natural Wealth Race Environment Diversity Mere Species Population Surround Restoration Wondrous Natural Environment Salvage Diversity Of Life

Author:E. O. Wilson

“If you do something positive, something positive will come back to you. If you consciously do negative things, then negativity will rule your life.”

Ifs Negative Negativity

Book:The Coldest Winter Ever

Source: The Coldest Winter Ever

“Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%.”

Thinking Should Evil Opportunity Strong Forget Worry Amount Waste Negative Program Roots Impact Critical Speed Enormous Efficiency Programmers Maintenance Premature Optimization Debugging

Author:Donald Knuth

“Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts.”

Thinking Language Ability Concepts Manipulate

Author:Leslie Lamport

“An effective way to test code is to exercise it at its natural boundaries”

Way Natural Exercise Tests Boundaries Code

Author:Brian Kernighan

“I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be part of why he seemed reluctant to explain them because if you have to explain a joke, you might as well save your breath.”

Ifs Wells Kind May Might Jesus Holy Jokes Breaths Spokes Suspects Reluctant Parables

Author:Frederick Buechner

“The knowledge that my discriminations are skewed and not always universally desirable doesn't stop me in the least from making them.”

Discrimination Desirable

Book:Getting Personal: Selected Writings

Source: Getting Personal: Selected Writings

“Management is not a science, it is an art.”

Art Management

Author:Michael Eisner

“Creativity can flourish within sensible financial limitations.”

Creativity Financial Limitation Sensible

Author:Michael Eisner

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