Scott Evanson

“If you’ve invented something new but you haven’t invented an effective way to sell it, you have a bad business—no matter how good the product.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.”
― Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't

“Sometimes, in the face of an infinity of alternatives, a straightforward result is all the more remarkable for being so.”
― Christian Rudder, Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves

“Anyone who has held an iDevice or a smoothly machined MacBook has felt the result of Steve Jobs’s obsession with visual and experiential perfection. But the most important lesson to learn from Jobs has nothing to do with aesthetics. The greatest thing Jobs designed was his business. Apple imagined and executed definite multi-year plans to create new products and distribute them effectively.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future