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Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.

– Leonardo da Vinci

A person understands himself not through thoughts, but with actions. It is only through making an effort that a person will understand his worth.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The most striking peculiarity presented psychologically by a crowd is the following: “Whoever be the individuals that compose it, however like or unlike be their mode of life, their occupations, their character, or their intelligence, the fact that they have been transformed into a crowd puts them in possession of a sort of collective mind which makes them feel, think, and act in a manner quite different from that in which each individual of them would feel, think, and act were he in a state of isolation.”

– Gustave Le Bon

With good technique you can forget technique.

– Carlos Kleiber

There’s lots of ways to be as a person. And some people express their deep appreciation in different ways. But one of the ways that I believe people express their appreciation to the rest of humanity is to make something wonderful and put it out there. And you never meet the people, you never shake their hands, you never hear their story or tell yours, but somehow, in the act of making something with a great deal of care and love, something is transmitted there. And it’s a way of expressing to the rest of our species our deep appreciation. So we need to be true to who we are, and remember what’s really important to us. That’s what is going to keep Apple Apple, if we keep us us.

– Steve Jobs

Good ideas are like the neo nurture device. They are, inevitably constrained by the parts and skills that surround them. We have a natural tendency to romanticize breakthrough innovations, imagining momentous ideas transcending their surroundings…… We like to think of our ideas as $40,000 incubators direct from factory, but in reality they have been cobbled together with spare parts that happened to be sitting in the garage.

– Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From

Disruption is when “…a new entrant leverages a technical innovation to serve customers with a business model incumbents cannot compete with, and over time moves up the value chain until those incumbents end up with a worse product that is more expensive to boot.”

– Link

Anybody who thinks he knows what’s going to happen in the investment world is deceiving himself. But anybody who thinks he knows when it’s going to happen is really off base, in my opinion. I sometimes talk about what should happen, but I never talk about when it will happen.

– Howard Marks