Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
— Elon Musk
Mortimer Adler
“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.”
- Author: Elon Musk
John Maeda
“Knowledge makes everything simpler.”
Schopenhauer
“When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process.”
Albert Einstein
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
Schopenhauer
“It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them; but one usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of their contents.
To desire that a man should retain everything he has ever read, is the same as wishing him to retain in his stomach all that he has ever eaten.”
Nietzsche
“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
Steve Jobs
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
Elon Musk
“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.”