

“Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.”
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“Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.”
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“Claude Shannon, the father of information theory, once declared, “I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines.”
― The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond
― The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond
“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.”
― Logic, Deductive and Inductive
― Logic, Deductive and Inductive
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