“One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.”

“In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions. ”

“The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.”

“The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.”

“Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.”

“The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.”

“Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.”

“An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the succes...”

“People love me. And you know what, I have been very successful. Everybody loves me.”

“We are given these niches, small worlds of our own populated by only a handful, where we feel understood. Our bubble worlds bump into innumerable others daily, but there is so little cause to allow...”

“Don't you know there's another bubble as well? An expectations bubble. Bigger houses, private planes, yachts... stupid salaries and bonuses. People come to desire these things and expect them. But ...”

“There's absolutely no bubble in technology.”

“Of all the rabbinic sages of antiquity, perhaps none was more influential or famous than Rabbi Akiva.”