'Contract' succeeded 'status' as the basic organising principle in modern political vs. ancient society.
It's easy to move fast or be obsessed with quality, but the trick is you have to do both at a startup.
No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.
I prefer to invest in a company that's going after a small but rapidly growing market than a big but slow growing one.
What being a founder means, is signing up for this years long grind on execution - and you can't outsource this.
Obsess about the quality of the product.
If someone is difficult to talk to, if someone cannot communicate clearly, it's a real problem in terms of their likelihood to work out.
I was an incredible Anglophile. I found people who shared the same sense of humor and attitude toward the world.
We ain't goin' study war no more.
We know that babies develop as well in nonmaternal as in maternal care, as long as the care is of good quality. The issue is not who gives the care but the quality of that care,. . . The guilt trip is, in my view, a hangover of another era and of unacknowledged tactics to keep women in their proper place--at home full-time.
people in general are totally unable to detach the personality of a writer from the products of his thinking.