Scott Evanson

“The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“Elite students climb confidently until they reach a level of competition sufficiently intense to beat their dreams out of them. Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart peers over conventional careers like management consulting and investment banking. For the privilege of being turned into conformists, students (or their families) pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in skyrocketing tuition that continues to outpace inflation. Why are we doing this to ourselves?”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very good at it.”
― Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't

“We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future