...never Let A Passion For The Perfect

Leonardo Da Vinci Was Comfortable Being Illegitimate, Gay, A Misfit, A Heretic. But He Also Respected Other People. He Didn't Get Into Disputations. He Was A Genius But He Had A Certain Humility. In His Notebooks You See Lists Of People He Wanted To Grill About Things Like How The Water Diversions In Milan Work; He Was Always Interested In Learning From Other People.

I Have My Own Theory About Why Decline Happens At Companies Like Ibm Or Microsoft. The Company Does A Great Job, Innovates And Becomes A Monopoly Or Close To It In Some Field, And Then The Quality Of The Product Becomes Less Important. The Company Starts Valuing The Great Salesmen, Because They’re The Ones Who Can Move The Needle On Revenues, Not The Product Engineers And Designers. So The Salespeople End Up Running The Company.

I Actually Think Bill Gates Is Conventionally Smarter, Even Though It's A Dumb Word, But Mental Processing Power - I've Watched Him Use Four Different Screens, Process Information, Get To The Right Answer, Boom Boom Boom.

On Startups: "i Hate It When People Call Themselves "entrepreneurs" When What They're Really Trying To Do Is Launch A Startup And Then Sell Or Go Public, So They Can Cash In And Move On.

I Think When You're Looking For People To Interview, You Want To Make It Fair And Honest. You're Not Just Bringing People On So You Can Beat Them Up Or, You Know, Make Fools Out Of Them Or Something