person / likes
James Burnham
“Oh, yes, my favorite is James Burnham. He’s my favorite.”
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person / likes
“Oh, yes, my favorite is James Burnham. He’s my favorite.”
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“Then I read this profile that I recommend to everybody, which is, Tom Wolfe, the great novelist, journalist, wrote a profile of Bob Noyce, who was the original founder of Intel and basically the father of the chip industry.”
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01 / uncertainty
“I don't know, my view is I need to put a big discount on my forecasting ability on this one.”
02 / uncertainty
“I would just say, there may be, I don't know, there may be like one particularly brilliant, I don't know, hedge fund manager or something who has this all figured out, but I guess I would say if they exist I haven't met them yet.”
03 / uncertainty
“I feel like I spent my first whatever, 30 years figuring out machines, and then now I’m spending 30 years figuring out people, which turns out to be quite a bit more complicated. And then, I don’t know, maybe God’s the last 30 years or something.”
04 / uncertainty
“If you have, the people I know who feel that way are pretty centered and generally seem very, I don’t know how to put it, pleased, proud, calm, at peace.”
05 / uncertainty
“There’s clearly going to be an educational revolution. Does that happen today or five years or ten years, I don’t know.”
06 / uncertainty
“I'd also say this — I don't know that there's actually a dividing line between that form of speculation, and speculation on what people call investments.”
07 / uncertainty
“Exactly. I don’t know. It’s one of these things you learn in venture capital. It’s like 90 percent of the battle is over by the time it starts.”