Quotes

The dominant, all-powerful factor of the film image is rhythm, expressing the flow of time within the frame.

Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

Day 2 is stasis. Followed by irrelevance. Followed by excruciating, painful decline. Followed by death.

Jeff Bezos, 2016 Letter to Shareholders

When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

John Maynard Keynes

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard Feynman, Cargo Cult Science

Applies as much to reading a balance sheet as to reading an experiment.

You need three things to create a successful startup - to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible.

Paul Graham, How to Start a Startup

It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.

Charlie Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack