“It is despairing to consider that the cost and reliability of access to space have barely changed since the Apollo era over three decades ago. Yet in virtually every other field of technology, we have made great strides in reducing cost and increasing capability.” MadeThreeSpaceTechnologyFieldsChangedCostDecadesAccessErasCapabilityApolloReducingStrideReliability Author:Elon Musk
“I remember my boyfriend and I had just broken up, and I was like 'I don't care how much it costs, I'm getting my hair bleached!' That's really when everything changed.” CareRememberChangedHairBrokenCostDon't CareI Don't CareMy BoyfriendBroken Up Author:Gwen Stefani
“Finding a single investment that will return 20% per year for 40 years tends to happen only in dreamland. In the real world, you uncover an opportunity, and then you compare other opportunities with that. And you only invest in the most attractive opportunities. That's your opportunity cost. That's what you learn in freshman economics. The game hasn't changed at all. That's why Modern Portfolio Theory is so asinine.” WorldYearsRealHappensOpportunityGamesModernChangedTheoryReturnCostFindingsEconomicsInvestmentCompareAttractiveReal WorldPortfoliosFreshmanDreamlandOpportunity Cost Author:Charlie Munger
“The reality is, the way we've used phones and the amount that we've used phones has changed radically in the past five years. When phones were first marketed in the 1990s, it cost, for car phones, $3000 to buy a phone and the average person did not use it that much. They were very, very expensive.” WayYearsFirstsPersonsUseRealityPastUsedFiveCarChangedAmountCostAveragePhonesFive YearsExpensiveAverage Person Author:Devra Davis