Consider everything an experiment.
You have to take power. No one gives it.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .
The opposite of compromise is character.
Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
The Googly thing is to launch products early on Google Labs and then iterate, learning what the market wants - and making it great. The beauty of experimenting in this way is that you never get too far from what the market wants. The market pulls you back.
Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.
Real data is messy. . . . It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing your song, but unfortunately it's out of whack, some of the strings are missing, and the pianist is tone deaf and drunk- I mean, the noise! Impossible!
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