Bojan Tunguz

“Apple didn’t find their footing until Steve Jobs understood that people felt intimidated (internal problem) by computers and wanted a simpler interface with technology.”
― Donald Miller, Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen

“In two centuries, the human labor to produce a kilogram of American wheat was reduced from 10 minutes to less than two seconds.”
― Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going

“Peace, however, came at an unprecedented price after Germany conquered France and briefly bestrode Europe. For the United States to maintain a hemispheric military posture could potentially leave Europe to the worst Europeans and Asia to the worst Asians—totalitarian dictatorships harnessing the tools of industrial modernity to achieve armed conquest and subjugation.”
― Stephen Wertheim, Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy

“Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.14”
― Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't