I paid no attention to the territorial boundaries of academic disciplines and I just grabbed all the big ideas that I could. - Charlie Munger
Just because you like it does not mean that the world will necessarily give it to you. - Charlie Munger
You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas. - Charlie Munger
Live within your income and save so that you can invest. Learn what you need to learn. - Charlie Munger
We look for a horse with one chance in two of winning and which pays you three to one. - Charlie Munger
If you have the ability then you have the responsibility. If you can then you must. You have a gift, you have a talent. You have the ability to help others. Stop sleeping on your talent, the world needs you. - Evan Carmichael
It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.
I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.
I think it would be great to be born on Earth and die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact.
They were building a Ferrari for every launch, when it was possible that a Honda Accord might do the trick.
One of the biggest mistakes we made was trying to automate things that are super easy for a person to do, but super hard for a robot to do.
You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. - Dale Carnegie
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