Quotes

“Regarding getting VC in Q1/2026 “The bar is going up from just being an AI startup, to being a recursively improving AI startup.”

““I disagree with some of these people that keep going back to the fact that LLMs are just token tumblers. I'm not saying that they are alive. However, to me, it makes me 100 times more productive. So it is in fact a very, very good token tumbler. And sometimes the tokens it tumbles are hallucinations. And sometimes those hallucinations are actually something new. … and once in a billion tokens, that something new can be something better than what existed. “

“building wealth versus inheriting it money without context means less than money with context.

““Picks and shovels; that’s where I am pursuing success in this gold rush. “

““ retirement is the worst thing for your longevity”

““Memories don’t get formed unless it’s difficult”

“"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,"

““Step one, solve intelligence; step two, use it to solve everything else.”

““ it’s funny investing in stocks how you can be right and wrong at the same time. You can be very wrong in the short term and very right and the long-term.”

““This is a bias that's often present in history; Anything that actually happened, looks inevitable in retrospect”

““The the economic role of human beings is shifting from labor to leverage to meaning”

“invest in specification, describe the system precisely enough that agents can build it. “when agents write the code, design become the bottleneck “

“"My last words would be: I would encourage everyone to be optimistic and excited about the future. For quality of life, it's better to error on the side of being an optimist and wrong rather than a pessimist and right." Elon Musk

“you have to know enough about what you’re doing to ask the right questions.

“persistence beats sophistication.

““Tasks must be actionable without archaeology”

“if I win then I win, and if I lose then I win

“opportunities to help people

““Teach one new person your system; you'll understand it twice as well.”

“ask why until they don’t know”

““We develop a formal correspondence between the spacetime constraint of special relativity and the time-allocation constraint of labor economics. By defining wages as proportional to proper time rather than coordinate time, we derive a "relativistic wage curve"

““Engineering is a workflow you can design.”

““People with limited intelligence are often extremely confident. They don’t consider they might be mistaken. Doubt requires intelligence, requires imagining alternative perspectives, requires recognizing your own limitations”

““ if everybody was rich, then nobody would be rich”

““Pay Your Future Self First: One of the keys to investing successfully is to start at a young age with automatic transfer of money from your checking account to your investment every month.”

““Look for challenges that affect large numbers of people, or create significant value for others. The size of the problem you solve directly correlates to the amount of money you can earn from solving it. If you do repetitive tasks that someone else has already figured out you’re essentially renting out your time. instead of creating something valuable”

““The longer you play in a casino, the greater the odds you lose. The longer you own a diversified portfolio of stocks, the greater the odds you win. The only similarity between investing and a casino is that if you do it right, you're the house.”

““Treat every on of your dollars as little workers that you send off to work every day. And each of them make a little money for you. If you spend one then it stops working for you and starts working for someone else. Debt is double that. You have to pay every dollar you borrow their wages every day.”

““one of the most Important concepts in understanding American wealth distribution, the difference between being rich and being wealthy. Rich is an income level, wealthy is a net worth level. You can be rich and broke spending everything you earn on an expensive lifestyle. You can also be wealthy with a modest income, having built, substantial assets, over time.”

“"Models are environments that we discover. Models are grown. They're not made. And we all venture into the wild forest of the model and discover what is there."

““ dress for where you’re going not where you’ve been.” “ dress for where you’re going not where you’re coming from.”

““Accept what you can’t control, master what you can control, compound tiny improvements daily”

“an idiot will admire complexity, a genius admire simplicity. Wolfram Alpha or Steven

““Rent objects, buy experiences”

““A business is worth the present value of its future cash flow”

““A lever is how you move things. Leverage is how you move people.”

““The more money you have, the less your problems can be solved by money.”

““Envy is a really stupid sin because it’s the only one you could never possibly have any fun at. There’s a lot of pain and no fun. Who is ever going to get ahead of you? Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. Envy is the tax you pay for being stupid”

““If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

““Spend according to your wealth, not your income”

““The problem isn’t the game, it’s that you keep showing up to play it”

“““I avoided debt, I avoided drama, I avoided dumb people.”

““all I want to know is where I’ll die, so I don’t go there”

“In the end, the compounding machine does not reward the cleverest, It rewards the stubborn. That’s the paradox of wealth.

““don’t take advice from anyone not excelling in the subject area of your concern.”

“In a 2004 interview with The New York Times, when asked about his IQ, Stephen Hawking replied: “I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.”

“some people think I’m not a real person just because I’m a theoretical physicist.

““In regards to ASI; summoning the demon is easier than controlling the demon you just summoned”

““In the 2025th year after Jesus died, modern technology; including 40 story rockets that take things to orbit and come back and land on earth, computers in our hand that do trillions of operations per second, humans living in orbit, and artificial intelligence being available to everyone in the world, are all bigger miracles than what was written in the Bible.”

“The people who think they are crazy enough to change the world are the ones that did by

“Too many options creates choice paralysis. Choice paralysis leads to perpetual unhappiness. This is the abundance of choice paradox, which creates anxiety, not satisfaction.

““if people don’t hate you, you have not achieved significant greatness and will not leave an impact in this world”

“Forced elegance; Choose poverty to build elegance

“” do you wanna be that guy that is rich one day and poor the other? Because once you’re poor, it’s really hard to get rich again and once you’re rich, it’s extremely easy to get poor again”

““We are now going to go in this huge new world where AI is going to make us even wealthier so there is going to be new things that are going to be scarce”

““ complexity kills execution”

““ I don’t believe money buys your happiness, but if I won the lottery I would certainly show up to my problems in a lot of style, because money does actually fix a lot of things.”

““The law of comparative advantage says that the more different you are from other people, the more valuable you are economically. That suggests that if you have an exact clone of you, you're almost not at all more economically valuable than just one of you.”

““We are going to see as much change between now and 2035 as we saw between 1925 and 2025”

““At some point AI will appear conscious; We have no evidence that there’s consciousness in these machines, what evidence do we have that there’s consciousness in humans? If I told you that half the people walking around are conscious and half of them are in NPCs. How would you find out which is which?”

““They have made a tremendous amount of progress in all directions summoning up to chaos”

““ a lot of people wanna be successful, but they’re not willing to wake up an hour earlier”

““ we have scaled far beyond the prompt, far beyond the prompt chain, we are now at this agent architecture that interacts with its environment over and over and over”

“When asked how people will be able to buy lightbulbs when they can’t afford electricity. “we will make electricity so cheap that only the Rich burn candles”

““The value of the “oracle” is inherently tied to the seeker’s ability to understand and apply the knowledge.”

““expertise reversal effect”

““Matthew Effect” in education - “to those who have, more will be given.”

““The Overton Window is a concept that defines the range of ideas, policies, or opinions considered acceptable or mainstream within a society at a given time.”

““The best token is no token… Latent Neurolese”

““The value of Al companies will exceed non-Al probably by an order of magnitude”

““People that tell me they dont judge are totally judging me.”

““ ask people what they want and they will say faster horses”

““Try to be as useful as possible… …don’t aspire to glory aspire to work”

““Software 3.0 is the idea that the next programming language is English, and we are not working with deterministic software, instead we are working with what Karpathy terms; people spirits. So stochastic simulations of people”

““In relationships, it's not the count of the grievances, only the final one. “

““In relationships, grievances stack quietly, but a final breach can tip the scale. Game theory’s threshold effect shows trust holds until a critical point breaks it.”

““I find beauty everywhere, it’s just easier in some people.”

““When you give up your freedom for security, you will find that you have neither”

““ nobody ever went broke taking a profit… … I don’t want that last dollar of profit”

““if you don’t commit, you don’t succeed”

“I would rather be approximately right than precisely wrong.

““A team members should be recognized, rewarded and promoted. C team members should be let roll off or otherwise removed. B team members either need to be brought up to the A team’s standards or pushed out. C team members are a poison to the team. B team members add high viscosity, a drag on everyone. A team members are the fuel.”

“your # doesn’t work. What good is your # if your money doesn’t work

““If you work or run fast towards retirement then you will find a fast death. The things you want to do in retirement, do them today.”

““A great way to learn about something is to teach it.”

“Ideal Gas Law of Time: tasks diffuse evenly across the day, driven by an almost thermodynamic inevitability. Trentism 2025. Paper written on 3/6/25

““According to the Kinetic Theory of Gases, developed by scientists like Maxwell and Boltzmann, a gas will evenly occupy its container due to the random motion of its particles.” Short version: “a gas will always occupy it’s container”

““In the space of automation, everything is edge cases.”

“Open source is better than closed source from a risk perspective, because it prevents the catastrophic accumulation of power in the misaligned entity.

““…the biggest alignment challenge is not between Al and humans… the alignment challenge is between those people who hold the keys to power and control the systems and the rest of the population. “

“"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

“the race is being chased by everybody. The last may be the hunter, the leader The hunted

“Live like you will die tomorrow. Learn like you will live forever.

““Complacency is easier than change. Focus on proactive self improvement, life-long learning, and constant embetterment.”

“agency is observer relative.

“The intelligence of a system, is purely limited by the complexity of its environment. Laura

““We will have achieved ASI when human intelligence is no longer a constraint on any scientific or economic activity.”

“if you haven’t gotten where you’re going, you’re not there yet.

“Moravec Paradox states the tasks that are easy for humans, and difficult for machines, such as facial recognition. On the other hand, tasks that we find challenging, such as complex calculations or playing chess, are relatively easy for Al systems. 22 Nov 2023

““Leaps in fundamental understanding can be found using different perspectives on the same observations.”

“aphorism "Probably lost in the simulation."

““naturally evolved physics (NEP) and resource-constrained simulation (RCS) are the yin and Yang of evolution versus simulation”

““Use the difficulty”

““The characters in the game are the game developers”

““Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”

““Evolution does not have an intention. It does not have a goal. It’s just kind of a very simple algorithm that's just happening.”

“Goodhart’s Law is an adage that states: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”

““You’ve got to look in the mirror, but it’s hard to look in the mirror, so we would rather look out the window.”

““Everyone likes meritocracy until they realize they’re an idiot”

“When something is hugely volatile, it tells you that something important is happening, either good or bad so it is worth paying attention to.

““Happiness is love because love is happiness.”

“"The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology."

““First; Build the machine that builds the machines. Once you create ASI, it will do the rest.”

““It only works if I believe it.”

“"Selling your winners and holding your losers is like cutting the flowers and watering the weeds."

“In the stock market. The people who sold their winners are losers.

“the most important thing in my life

“Few people understand the power of saying no

“Quantum mechanics killed determinism

“better themselves

““I learn more when I’m teaching than when I researching”

““As a former toddler, I can relate to your behavior”

“"The true purpose of Al is to allow wealth to access skill without allowing skill to access wealth."

““If you solve all of your children’s problems for them, well you might think well they have no problems, it’s like yeah they have a problem, they don’t know how to solve their own problems and that’s a big problem.”

““Wealth is a calculation inclusive of your health, family, friends, and your feeling of purpose in this world”

“Dumb people don’t know they are dumb, what a gift that must be

““True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can be denied where it does."

““The essence of existence is measured by life’s connections, accomplishments, and growth while understanding that life is finite. Be comfortable taking uncomfortable risks. Focus on your health; physically through exercise and mentally through stoicism. Then try and be more connected, immersed and interactive in your relationships with your partner, family and friends. Focus on a career that brings fulfillment to your life, then on building wealth that is lifestyle sustaining through passive income providing future financial security. Have hobbies that challenge and fill the creative gaps you don’t get from your career. Travel and experience this wonderful world while you are young enough to enjoy it. A good death only comes after a good life.”

““Opportunity is a function of density. …you are the average of your five closest friends. You become the same person with some exceptions; 1 will be poor, 3 will be fine, 1 will be wealthy” “You rise or fall to the level of your peer group”

““If you try to play a team sport solo, then your on the field alone”

““Stoicism; life isn’t about what happens to you, it’s about how you respond to what happens to you”

““Meet triumph and disaster and treat those two imposters the same “ Unknown. Basically saying “Your success is not entirely your fault”

““Greatness is in the admiration of others”

““It’s the boring shit that makes you rich”

““If you want to be successful professionally, be successful personally, go out and make friends.”

““You will always naturally inflate your own contribution to the relationship and diminish theirs “

““ The definition of being rich is having a bunch of shit and impressing your friends. The definition of wealth is knowing that the passive income you will get is greater than your expenses, so you work out of option, you work because you want to not because you need to.”

““You need to have a solid understanding that life is finite. In 30 to 40 years everybody’s whose opinion you’re worried about is going to be dead. So be comfortable taking an uncomfortable risk. Don’t be worried about rejection, because everyone your worried about being ashamed by will be dead soon, so will you. So why wouldn’t you live out loud?”

““Unless you’re willing to take an uncomfortable risk, nothing wonderful is ever going to happen”

““These things that seem shiny and new, hopefully optimistic, worthy of our effort, energy and precious time are just our minds tricking us, filling in the unknowns with checkmarks. It’s a fallacy in the limit, as in the end they are not what we want or need to fill that empty space. To fill that lifelong friendship and partnership. We both let our minds trick us into something that is unwortherly not us. “

““ when you look for coincidences, you will find coincidences”

““'I'm not a believer in fairytales, but I am a believer in dreams”

“At a distance everyone looks the same

“If its inescapable or they follow your around: pain level 9

“more difficult

“discovered

“I diddnt come here to tell you how this was going to end. I came here to tell you how it was going to begin.

““So there’s always this fun game that happens within the laser lab of how do you work with the basically invisible near instant death Laser?”

““The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make.”

““Even Picasso needed paint to work with”

““Getting older is not the only way to die. Getting older is the only way to stay alive.”

““Once AI reaches a few standard deviations above humans cognitive horizon, humans will no longer be able to understand their logic. The same way most humans would be hopelessly lost stuck in a conversation with Einstein on general relativity.”

““Money can’t buy intelligence, integrity, or self-esteem. For the latter two it’s paradoxical.”

““it wasn’t fish that invented water”

““ Death is the most certain part of living”

““I find it incredibly interesting that everyone thinks they are the protagonist”

““I find it incredibly interesting that everyone thinks they are the interesting.”

““If you compare your partner to the idealized version of a partner, you will be disappointed, and if they compare you to an idealized partner, they will be disappointed”

““If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”

““There are no monsters;- beings just do what they need to do to survive”

““if you ask the wrong question, then the right answer is impossible.”

“Parkinson’s law is the idea that work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion.

““ the future will happen anyhow”

““ interviewer: Elon, how do you manage really smart people? Elon you don’t manage really smart people they manage themselves.”

“BJORK (With the O having a line through it like a Zero; Richard Feynman’s pseudo name checking in at restaurants)

““I recently discovered that I have a cognitive bias to my cognitive biases”

““Philosophically I don't believe bringing the state of Florida into a relationship adds any specific value other than tax benefits.”

““Hobbies fill gaps in career aspirations or the need to create and be productive that you are not getting from your job or elsewhere. All very important to psychological health.”

““Most people have the most amazing story inside of them, but most other people don’t take the time to listen.”

““Comfort, safety and security originates from within”

““Al might not take your job, but people or companies using Al will”

“"Patience is good. Patients with a plan is better."

““When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

““Every drink removes one filter layer, removing 3-4 layers exposes the real personality and motives hidden behind the masquerade mask”

““Design your future, or someone else will design it for you”

““If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much”

““The future is an emergent property of the decisions we make now.”

“I take laplaces demon, as; if you know the state of every particle in the universe, which is momentum and position then using just physics, you can accurately predict the future, and the future is deterministic, although if you factor in quantum uncertainty, that no longer is the case.

“"If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.”

“robots, need artificial intelligence as much as artificial intelligence needs robots

“Life’s most valuable asset is found in relationships

““ you can’t pretend without tilting in the direction of your pretense”

““Time is the one true currency”

““We don’t want to be one of those lame one planet civilizations”

““What Scooby Doo taught us is that we are the real monsters. Once you take the mask off it not Molok it’s not Shogoth, it’s humans”

““the best doesn’t have to be perfect”

““If we don’t make humans we won’t have humanity”

““For most people, the difference between being happy and unhappy is deciding to be happy”

““The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships”

““and the great tragedy, for there is no loneliness like the loneliness of having your light unmet” (ARIA POPOVA) “I will say there is a greater loneliness, and that’s the loneliness of being in a relationship with someone you do not love. The real tragedy is when you’re with the wrong person you’ll never meet the right person.”

““You seem very intelligent. I don’t accuse very many people of having that trait.”

““Being attracted to someone is an emergent property. It’s not one thing, it’s a combination of many attributes that, only when combined, produces this new emergent property of attractiveness.”

““Attractiveness is an emergent property as the individual qualities do not have it on their own.”

““The relationship time travel test; a sign of a fabulous relationship is when you’re so immersed in a date that you don’t notice anything or anyone else and all the sudden you look up and the restaurants empty it’s just the two of you left. It’s like you traveled through time.”

““The Theater curtain test is when you’re watching a movie, if you notice the theater curtains, it generally was not a good movie.”

““make it simple, but significant “

““The best way to dispose of radioactive material is to sell it to someone else”

““The 37% Rule; if you knew you were interviewing 100 potential secretaries, you’d interview and reject the first 37, and you’d keep in mind who your best-so-far candidate was as a benchmark. From interview 38 onwards, you’d immediately hire the person better than your best-so-far candidate. This is how you maximise your chances of hiring the best overall candidate.”

““There’s no difference between thinking about yourself and what you want, and being miserable. …Self-consciousness and negative emotions are so tightly tied together, they are statistically indistinguishable. The more you focus on yourself, the more miserable you are. ”

““There is no difference between attention and love”

““Solomon’s Paradox states that we are much better at solving other peoples problems than our own, because detachment leads to objectivity “

““Government spending is taxation in one form or another”

““Some experts say that intelligence and conciseness is born out of complexity; I don’t find most people very complex.”

““nobody digs their own graves better than themselves”

““It’s OK to be wrong, just don’t be confident and wrong”

“"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

“determine the value. I know it’s right there in front of me, I just don’t know the decoding process

““I’m single-handedly trying to keep chivalry alive, one door at a time.”

““You should not have to tell someone that which is self evident”

“"In summary, the biggest existencial risk [to human extinction] is our own stupidity"

““Money doesn’t matter once you have enough not to matter”

““The world is full of people that used to love someone. The fact that there are more people that used to love someone, than are in love, is a reflection of cancel culture and unmanaged expectations.”

““And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music”

““ I remember hating you for loving me”

““Holding onto Tesla stock is like having a call option on infinity”

““Our relationship has all of the right ingredients. It’s up to us to put them together to make the perfect entree.”

““I started off life as a small child”

““All of our decisions, good and bad, led us to where we are right now. Any changes in the past would change our present, and not always for the better. So be weary of regretting or wishing changes on past decisions, mistakes, and unfortunate situations as they forged your present.”

““People don't drink the sand because they're thirsty. They drink the sand because they don't know the difference.”

““When two people who bring each other up let go, some will fall.”

““When people laugh at you it doesn’t always mean you’re funny”

“I don’t remember your name, but you remind me of a friendly face”

““being hurt in a relationship and carrying that over to a future relationship in some capacity is metaphorically the same to a shoulder injury. The next time you go to lift something even though it had nothing to do with your original injury, and you know that, you still lift it very slow and carefully the first few times.”

““Narcissism, when self-esteem is disconnected from actual accomplishments”

““Forget quality time, there’s no such thing as quality time, all time spent with your kids is quality time.”

““I saw the birth of the computer science field, and due to artificial intelligence, I will likely witness the death of it.”

““Divorce is always good news. I know that sounds weird, but it’s true because, no good marriage has ever ended in divorce“

““I know too much to be single. I know everything that happens now. That’s no good for single. You got to be optimistic to be single. Stupid, you have to be stupid, that’s what optimistic means you know, it means stupid. An optimist is someone who says “Maybe something nice will happen”, why the fuck would something nice happen? what are you stupid?”

““Don’t avoid or embrace stress. Too little and you are walking toward your grave, too much and you’re running to the same ending. The optimal amount of stress promotes health, happiness and longevity.”

““Without stress, we'd be as good as dead”

““Humans need an optimal amount of stress. A sweet spot between being bored and stressed.”

““Love is holding the other end of the measuring tape”

““Consciousness just might be an emergent aspect of of complexity”

“Nash Equilibrium in a Relationship: Nash equilibrium is a concept in game theory that describes a situation where each player in a game chooses a strategy that is optimal given the strategies chosen by all other players in the game. In other words, no player can improve their outcome by changing their strategy while the other players keep their strategies unchanged. In a relationship, Nash equilibrium can be achieved when both partners choose strategies that are optimal given the strategies chosen by their partner. For example, if both partners choose to be honest with each other, then they will both benefit from this strategy and neither will have an incentive to change their behavior.

““The conditions under which you were born, have a very large impact on the conditions of your death”

“”The ruliad which is kind of the entangled limit of all possible computations. …our experience of the physical world is taking some slice of that ruliad, experiencing kind of the set of all possible computations in a particular slice that corresponds to the ways that our sensory data work and our minds work”

““Even extremely simple rules are capable of generating extremely complicated behavior ”

““The glow that comes off of us, that seems to impact countless people every time we go out in public, is in fact an emergent property. “

““You don’t go to war with a millionaire who mows his own lawn.”

““Philosophically speaking, there is no success without failure. If everybody succeeded there would be nothing to measure success against.”

““There was a lot of engineering done, and there were a lot of right answers to the wrong questions”

““The success of a system (Relationship, Family, Engineering) relates more to emergent that individual discrete properties. For relationships it’s functional emergent properties, for engineering it’s functional And non-functional “

““ look, I have a number of options and you’re my number one. I see my number one on Friday night and I go out with my number seven on Wednesday night so you have to make the decision; Are you going out with me Friday or are you going out with me on Wednesday?”

““ remember you told me to tell you when you’re acting rudely and insensitively. Remember that? you’re doing it right now”

““The only way for me to win the lottery is for other people to buy tickets” Trentism 2023 “the only way to win the lottery is for other people to buy tickets”

““You don't need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.”

““ some people like me because of my people skills or my ability to write software. It’s really my skills between the sheets , Google sheets and excel sheets. The real trick is you just keep experimenting do you figure out what works for both , both Google sheets and excel. in the end all the fancy things you do under the sheets aren’t what’s important what people see is that they’re happy with the outcome”

““I treat every day like I traded a day of my life for it. I always try and be better and better myself which doesn’t just help me today; but every day for the rest of my life.”

““Tattoos, Women and Couches; when you select a favorite, you are convinced you have that couch problem solved, and likely for life. Whatever else happens you have that couch problem solved. On a long enough timeline most things are transient and the survival rate for everyone drops to zero“

““The scary situation isn't the Al that can pass a Turing Test. The scary scenario is the one that fails it on purpose."

““In quantum mechanics we can’t predict the outcome of a measurement, we can only predict the probability for getting a particular outcome.”

““In life we can not predict the outcome, only the probability of a particular outcome.”

““Don’t measure me by wealth measure me by my family, measure me by my friends, measure me by my accomplishments in life.”

““searching for a life partner is a little like shopping for clothes. You see something from across the room and go in for a closer look. Upon closer inspection the item is obviously not what you were shopping for so you move on. It’s not that you hate the item. You don’t even know the item. It’s not personal. You are just looking for a better fit, so you move on.”

““You shouldn’t fear rejection or someone not liking you; that would just mean they like someone else more which is statistically likely.”

““I’m not going to pretend to understand the creative process because I do not understand the creative process and because I do not know how to pretend.”

““I only enter into multiyear relationships, unfortunately more recently they only last a few months.”

““Wealth is a requirement to provide for a family and excess capability should not be shamed”

““In every family there’s always at least one person who over exaggerates everything. In my family there’s like 300 of them”

““ I recently read the website of the flat earth society; it is the most remarkable collection of nonsense.”

““A successful relationship equals their mistakes minus your mistakes. Zero is the optimum, and has a higher non zero chance of success. But the real takeaway is; you can only control your own mistakes”

““If you’re ashamed of the world you live in, you won’t want to bring anyone into it.”

““What does success look like? …its their mistakes minus your mistakes. Life success really boils down to how you control your mistakes, now this is a bit counter intuitive, the way you control your mistakes is by making a lot of mistakes. ”

““What feels important in the moment, isn’t that important.”

““Nothing is as ever as good or as bad as it seems”

““the gym and work have one thing in common; the dumbbells make me work on my control muscles”

““A good death only comes after a good life”

““Everyone knew it was impossible, until a fool who didn't know, came along and did it.”

““Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler”

““Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”

““The less people know about something the simpler it appears to them.”

““It’s not the critic who counts… The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, …who strives valiantly; …his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.“

“A sound mind in a sound body', or in Latin 'Mens sana in corpore sano', is a well-known motto. It stands for the ideal of versatility. A person is only healthy when he is occupied both intellectually and physically.

““When things reach their ideal platonic form they tend to function well, and the endpoint reveals itself.”

““Based on your repeated interruptions, I infer that you do not value my input on this topic, and as such I concede. However, as I am the subject matter expert here, might I recommend active listening instead.”

““one of my friends said; starting a company is like eating glass and staring off into the abyss”

““I was asked, what can you say to encourage people to start companies, I’m like if you need encouragement don’t start a company”

““Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day--in and day--out.”

““Low pass filter yourself, in what has consistently been true for you. …you’re going to work the hardest on the things you care about the most, so low pass filter yourself…”

““A butterfly is not a caterpillar with wings”

““Sticking feathers up your ass does not make you a chicken”

““I’ve learned to eat less calories than I burn, spend less than I earn, and love equally “ Trentism 2022 10224/22 "Hugh was born and brought up in a working class home that his parents had specially built on the grounds of their Gloucestershire estate"

““The things that make me happy are not tied to money“

““When I was a crack and heroine addict I made some unusual decisions” “…I behaved in peculiar and unusual ways”

““ I’ve only got an estimated 47 years left on this planet. I don’t proposed to waste any more of them in idle chatter with a confused old gasbag like you”

““ yeah, your mental illness was kind of like your middle name, I didn’t know what it was, but I knew that you had one“ Dustin on Taylor Tomlinson’s act. “But now that your talking it’s like a bright light creating a silhouette of your psychosis”

““Lying to strangers has little impact on your life, lying to friends will hand a moderate impact, lying to your family will have the second highest influence on your life, and lying to yourself will have the largest impact.”

““ It was given to me by my grandfather on my parents side as a gift celebrating my lost virginity, if he hadn’t given it to me I would probably be alive right now”

““Why does it take so long to learn patients!”

““Depression comes from living in the past, Anxiety comes from living in the future, Peace comes from living in the present.”

““it’s (or You are) a minor disruption to the perceptual set that I’m using to organize the world”

““sell your losers and let your winners ride”

““I generally don’t like arrogant people, but tend to love their confidence.”

““I used to be rich, I hope I can stay above that waterline.”

““I don’t believe in keeping dogs as captives. I think in the distant future it will be viewed as mean and barbaric in hindsight.”

““When you improve yourself today, you are not just improving the things you do today, you’re improving every single thing that you do for the rest of your life.”

““Build conviction before you build a position in an investment“

““ The world needs a bad guy just like a book or movie needs an antagonist”

““I love when a girl forgets why they dislike me, and I hate when I forget why I don’t like them.”

““Now there’s risk with all investing, I have to say that because The SEC requires that I say that, there’s also risk in not investing, and the SEC does not require me to say that. There’s risk in investing but there’s also risk in not investing, And that is the risk you should be most concerned about.”

““short term thinking and goals are small steps to nowhere.”

““the only time I was wrong is when I thought I had made a mistake.”

““retirement is when you do what you want to do every single day. This may involve activities that other people consider work.”

““loosers focus on winners, winners focus on winning”

““on level of skill, sex is like installing tile, the first time you do it you gonna make a mess of it and likely have to apologize to somebody. Hopefully they’ll let you try it again. “

““Advice is better than encouragement”

““ It’s very important to understand the game and how the game works, even if you don’t like the game.“

““you [either] played the game wrong, or it was the wrong game. One of those two. You picked the damn game.”

““ at the end of your life you can’t buy time back not with all the money in the world“

““if your not looking for perfection, you are less likely to find it.”

““The doctor say he’s got a 50/50 chance of living, though there’s only a 10% chance of that.”

“"Every woman needs a man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do -- fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible."

““Don’t chase women, chase your dreams and find success, women will follow as happiness, confidence and success attracts them.”

““I’m sorry for any bad behavior last night, I was a little drunk, it probably will happen again.”

““Death is when you wake up one less time than you fall asleep.”

““Your ok the way you are, that’s what we tell young people. There is nothing worse that you can tell someone who is young than that, especially if their miserable, …and it’s like, they don’t want to hear that; your useless, you know nothing, you haven’t got started, you have 60 years to put yourself together and god only knows what you could become”

““Just because something hasn’t been proven false, doesn’t make it true.”

““The universe is the answer, what are the questions “

““If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.”

““Pay raises to adjust for high inflation can fuel the inflation spiral by adding buying power to the system.”

““pretty much give you a disneyland level fast pass to whatever afterlife you may believe in”

“"If you haven't done anything wrong, do not apologize."

““Marriages we’re not designed to last forever despite the sales pitch. When the average life expectancy was 27 and life was exceptionally hard it was a necessity. for instance if marriages lasted only 1 year the success rate would approach 100%, and if it was 1000 years and we lived that long due to modern medicine the success rate would approach zero.”

““it is a self injustice to be proud of one’s insufficiency”

““there is no such thing as self worth, only value. The value one’s self adds to society.”

““At it’s core success is materially based on luck, and the harder one works the luckier they get.”

““Success is one of the possible outcomes. The probability is uncertain, but above zero.”

““At SpaceX we specialize in converting / turning things from Impossible to Late”

““Yes Ma’am; wait what, sorry I have Gendervitus, it prevents me from correctly identifying gender.”

““The person who invented autocorrect should burn in hello”

““The true economy is the output of goods and services, it’s not money. Money, or anything that you call money, is a way for us to conveniently exchange goods and services without having to engage in barter, and also to shift obligations in time. Money is a database, it’s an information system for labor allocation and exchange of goods and services and translating in time.”

““ A relationship is like the way it functions, you never know where you are until you test it.”

““Ones value to others and society are based on accountability and responsibility. Starting with the responsibility to take care of yourself by adding value to society, then if you have and leftover resources to take responsibility for a family that’s even better, and if they have more leftover they can start a business and add to society. “

““on average most people are average”

““A lot of what people regard as their own personalities, and are proud of about their own personalities, aren’t their own personalities at all they’re useless idiosyncrasies that differentiate them trivially from other people. They have no value in of themselves. They are more like quirks.”

““war is a winner take all game for grownups played by juveniles”

““Look, Sometimes I go play chess in the park, and the key to chess… …ok, I play online, but the key to chess… …ok, it’s angry birds, but the key to angry birds is to always try to see every possible outcome, and to hit some pigs with rocks or something… …I don’t know, I don’t play, I can’t get it to download, but the point is….”

““And your wardrobe, it’s like what, are you like allergic to quality fabrics?”

““Our society operates on a currency of women’s insecurities; the cosmetic industry is a billion dollar industry“

““ Blackout drinking is when your brain starts dreaming even if you’re not asleep.”

““A lie is just a great story that someone ruined with the truth.”

““ That’s the tuition you have to pay, losing money”

““ Stocks go up in an escalator and down in an elevator”

““You should value a public company or an asset class like crypto by (units_purchased * individual_unit_purchased_price) as opposed to (units_outstanding * last_unit_purchased). Call it Purchased Capitalization Value. This should be measured in Real and Nominal as inflation needs to be factored over long durations.”

““you have to be alert when you’re suffering, you have to be alert to the beauty in life, the unexpected beauty in life.”

“"If you could choose to be born at the 95th percentile for wealth, or the 95th percentile for IQ, you would be more successful at age 40 as a consequence of the latter choice."

““Turn a nightmare into a dream with Tesla Insurance”

“(Intentionally out of order) “ you hear the egalitarian clarion call everywhere. Everything should be equal. Everything should be equally distributed. We should strive for equity. It’s like wrong. What we want are just hierarchies of competence. Not everyone is a neurosurgeon, you know if your father has a brain tumor, you probably want a hierarchy of competence.”

““If you really really listen to a person they are unbelievably interesting. If you’re bored in a conversation then you’re the boring person”

““ We are wired to where negative interactions hurt us more than positive interactions help us, if they are of the same magnitude. So for example people will work harder to avoid a loss of $5, then they will to attain a gain of $5. And you might say, why is that? And the answer is that you can be absolutely dead, but there is only so happy you can be.”

““I certainly would like to maintain health for a longer period of time, but I’m not afraid of dying, I think it will come as a relief.”

“"There are no certainties; only probabilities "

““when I tell women that I’m a one girl guy, they always wrongfully assume it’s them”

““I am jealous of all of those who were able to give up, just enough. to retire”

““at the end of the day; Time is everything, speed is everything, and money is just a way to buy time.”

““essentially, the longer you do anything, the more mistakes that you will make cumulatively.”

““Meritocracy; I system, organization or society in which people are chosen and moved into positions of success, power and influence based on their demonstrated abilities and merit.”

““Will Covid Kids be a reference to the kids that lack social skills because they were home schooled through their high school years, or are they the ones that took the Vaccine and are have post vaccine syndrome. “

““Out of pain and determination was forged the greatest engineer the world has ever seen; Elon Musk”

“"There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement."

““Tesla is one of the worlds fasted moving companies in one of the worlds slowest moving industries“

““Freedom is the Maximum set of possible future actions”

““The number women at a table is the square root of the simultaneous conversations”

““when bankers get together for dinner they talk about art, when artists get together for dinner they talk about money”

““Nature diddnt select me, I selected myself.”

““A Schedule is the only thing keeping time from consuming your whole day”

““Alcohol exposes one’s true personality by removing the filters”

““ The product errors reflect the organizational errors.”

““If you are accumulating shares and have a long investment window then you actually want the lowest stock price for the longest time. I realize this is difficult psychologically, but at the limit you will find the global maximum for your DCA accumulated portfolio by having the lowest average entry price. “

““The people who truly research, understand and have ultra high conviction on crypto scare me to death. To me they are flat earthers or Scientologist. I have tolerance to their beliefs, but that’s all I can muster.”

““I should get your number in case something happens to my girlfriend. …just kidding…. I don’t have a girlfriend.”

““Ideologically I don’t think one should form another into what we think we want; however we have an obligation to communicate just what that might look like.”

““I would like to propose a Marriage metaphor; Buying stock is analogous to getting Married. It’s relatively easy to enter but you have to make sure you have long term conviction. Selling stock is the divorce, and with it comes lots of consequences including taxation, separation anxiety and FOMO. If you have true long term conviction in a stock or potential mate, just get married and stay married until such time as the thesis and thus your conviction changes.”

“You can’t win . You can’t break even . You can’t get out of the game Memory aid for the three laws of thermodynamics

““The world is not driven by greed, it's driven by envy. The fact that everybody is five times better off than they used to be, they take it for granted. All they think about is somebody else is having more, and it's not fair that he should have it and they don't.”

““I kind of respect people who are so transparent in their self interest”

““ The lack of money is the root of all evil”

““Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference”

““ One who does not learn has no advantage over one who cannot learn.” Trentism 2022 “ One who does not use their intelligence has no advantage over the unintelligent.”

““ If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything”

““When is an hour of time more valuable from 10 pm till 11 pm or from 6am to 7am?”

““I am an aerospace engineer, which might sound boring to you, but at night I dress up like a giant spider and fight crime”

““Success leaves clues”

““ What do you know thats true that the rest of the world thinks is false”

““If everyone is thinking the same thing, someone isn't thinking”

““ I really hate when people confuse me with someone that cares”

““Married couples accumulate almost twice the wealth when compared to single people. And then they lose half in the the divorce “

““I want to invoke Occams Razor here; the simplest explanation is usually the correct one”

““If you sell your Tesla stock, where will you put that money? I will hold Tesla until the answer to this question is not Tesla.”

““ When the students ready, the teacher appears”

““Let’s define financial freedom; which will be a 4 to 5% draw on your principal that 100% replaces your comfortable cost of living”

““You will never be able to save your way to financial independence… …if you save 30% of your paycheck and make over 100k“

““The pain is real, the losses are not.”

““Stocks will find their rightful owners”

““you are either running for the win or walking toward the exit. There is no middle ground.”

““Everything bad in your life is temporary and everything good in your life is temporary so you have to win and lose every single day.”

““your just talking out loud, or as sane people say; talking”

““what hums and is worth about $100M?”

““Tesla is a 1 Trillion dollar startup with a 1% marketshare”

““when was the last time you saw a doctor? I see a lot of people every day,I don’t always know what they do for a living.”

““I could do nothing for the rest of my life and it would still be too much”

““The chemical bonding of love, fades with age”

““You can prolong your day in the sun by raising to new heights”

““If you can borrow money below inflation you have an arbitrage”

““Stay in perfect shape and always look your best because you can’t like someone’s personality from across the room.”

““To not care what anybody else thinks is actually in the definition of sociopath.”

““It’s completely normal to hate on people more successful than you, however it’s better to learn from them.”

““When something is important enough you do it even when the odds are not in your favor.”

““ If you were really good at manufacturing, In high volume, you can basically make anything for a cost, that asymptotically approaches the raw material values of the constituents plus any intellectual property that you need to license”

““ The fundamental constraint is labor, there are not enough people. I cannot emphasize this enough, there are not enough people. I think one of the biggest risks to civilization is the low birth rate, and the rapidly declining birth rate.”

““Men age better than women because men focus on appearance and women focus on personality. It’s hard to know someone has a great personality from across the room.”

““Once you have food and shelter, the difference between want and need is a reflection of your self control.”

“Interviewer (as a male feminist): "why do rockets look like penises? It's not fair, can we make vagina shaped rockets as well" Elon: "aerodynamics and hydrodynamics share similar properties whether biological or mechanical."

““ If I lost everything and had to start over, then my money would have that new girlfriend smell”

““Is happiness a lack of regret”

““I’ll be a gentleman until it’s time not to be a gentleman”

““I was married once is why I have not been married twice”

““the stock market discounts the future, not the past. …that means the market will rise or fall according to changes in anticipated future returns. It does ‘not include history in the calculation,’” Mark Hulbert quoting Lawrence Tint. Marc goes on to point out that the probability for the Dow to rise over the next year is 66% independent of previous performance with the exception of a 20% drop the previous year increases the 66% to 80%. “Regardless, what happens to stocks in [next year] will have nothing to do with how the market has performed this year.”

“"Money is not hard, what's hard is breaking the mental barrier to unlearn what society teaches you and live your life on your own terms"

““Wealth is when your resources exceeds your lifetime consumption needs thus your focus shifts to capital allocation and legacy”

““After your wealth exceeds the needs of consumption, you should focus on capital allocation and legacy”

““I love my kids more than life but not at the expense of it”

““Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”

““Integrity is the one thing people cannot take from you. You have to create and destroy it yourself. “

““ People don’t change their mind, they just die”

““ You can think of the government as simply a corporation in the limit; the government is simply the biggest corporation with a monopoly on violence and where you have no recourse”

““ it does not make sense to take the job of capital allocation away from people who have demonstrated great skill in capital allocation, and give it to an entity that has demonstrated poor skill of capital allocation, which is the Government “

““I think the role of government should be that like a referee, but not a player on the field”

““Millennials exiting the workforce after paper windfalls is a great example of “the labor shortage problem”. People rich on indexes and crypto are no longer part of our economy and this needs to be a small portion of the populace or it becomes poisonous.”

““Sew one button, doesn't make u a tailor; cook one meal, doesn't make u a chef; but f* one horse and ur a horsef*er for all of history…”

““ There are lies, damn lies, and statistics”

““ Politicians are just actors that were not good looking enough to be in movies”

““if you dont take control of every hour of every day, life will run you the fuck over”

““ When girls don’t like me it confuses me, and when girls like me, it confuses me more”

““ You’ll find that older movies have a much higher production value”

““when is $10 really $0. When it’s born from a SPAC.”

““Evolution is a very slow process, more for some than others.”

““There is good in everyone, sometimes it’s just harder to find.”

““I work out 7 days a week, I invest 5 days a week, I’m a father 4 days a week, and I live every day”

““ Success is one of the possible outcomes”

““ What do you think happens when we die? I know that the ones who love us will miss us.”

““Think with clarity, listen for potential, and act with purpose”

““You smell so bad, I can hear it”

““so much for your, common complications, so much for your constant desperation. For what’s to come your way; it’s all been written, written down”

““When you look in the mirror all you can see are your flaws, that’s not what I see”

““Just like that rare berry from the Yukon peninsula, I’m a flavor that not everyone appreciates”

““Remember what David Lee said; Tesla and TSLA are two separate entities. Tesla; a business with strong fundamentals growing at 50-60% YoY for 5-10 years, lead by the protagonist from an epic James Bond movie except he is trying to save the world instead of destroying it. TSLA; an equity driven by a market that rarely acts rationally, and can act irrational longer than you can remain solvent. “

““Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.”

““ i’m sorry can you do that again I was folding the dishes”

““As of late, I’m sure you’re all noticing it too, that there just feels like a shift In the collective consciousness almost, that the world understands, that electric is the way. They’re also understanding that Tesla is the way for electric”

““I like putting all of my eggs in one basket and then watching that basket very carefully”

““Fortune favors the brave”

““regional idioms; like y’all and youse-guys”

““Too many people think the future is a reflection of the past”

““I want all that dumb shit that money can buy”

““Asking someone’s age is just as rude as asking their net worth; both represent value accumulated over time.”

““ As the saying goes, if you’re going through hell, keep going “

““Limitations drive creativity”

““ In 2021 it’s not the have or have Nots it’s the Tesla or Tesla nots”

““ There’s either no god or a god that lets really fucked up shit happen. “

““I will live as a billionaire, but won’t die one.”

““To be a politician, it attracts like a certain type of person, and you know it’s not our best and brightest minds.”

““The reality of doing the right thing matters more than the perception of doing the right thing”

““ The economy is fundamentally built upon labor, so this will have profound implications as capital equipment enters the labor market. Elon Musk 2021

““If you can see the less fortunate, then you haven’t hit bottom, it just seems that way”

““ Profits are better than wages”

““ The struggle you’re facing is a test to see if your truly committed to the life that you say you want”

““ Everybody laughed at me when I told them I wanted to be a standup comedian, well nobody’s laughing now “

““If I ain’t got it then I’m hunting, I’m either counting or I’m cummin”

““What’s the point of having fuck you money if you never say fuck you”

““Second place should need a telescope to see us”

““Q; Do you believe in god? A; I believe there is some explanation for this universe, which you might call god.”

““There’s going be no choice in the long term to move to sustainable energy, It’s tautological, we have to have sustainable energy, or we’ll simply run out of the other one [carbon based].”

““At a certain point people have to get tired of being wrong”

““If you have room to fall, then you haven’t hit bottom. “

““Being negative is a stupid person’s way of trying to appear smart, without actually being smart”

“Post Tesla AI Day with Tesla Bot Reveal; new mission statement. “Our mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to a sustainable future.”

““Narcissism is people on the left side of the bell curve bullying people on the right side.”

““We all have a limited amount of time. Once you have the basics taken care of you have to ask the question; what is worth my time, it’s the essential delima of human existence is how to spend the hours of your days. You have to make that decision.”

““Born from the center of a storm “

““In retrospect, it was inevitable”

““What is the economy? At the foundation it is labor. … The economy at its foundational level, is labor. Is there any actual limit to the economy, maybe not.”

““Step 1) Make the requirements less dumb. Your requirements are definitely dumb. It doesn’t matter who gave them to you, it’s particularly dangerous if a smart person gave them to you, because you might not question them enough. Everyone’s wrong, no matter who you are, everyone is wrong some of the time. Whatever requirement or constraint you have must come with the name not a department, because you can’t ask the department you must ask a person. Step 2) Try very hard to Delete the part or process. If you’re not adding things back in 10% of the time and you’re clearly not deleting enough. Step 3) Simplify or optimize. Optimize is third because the most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist. Step 4) Accelerate cycle time. But don’t go faster until you’ve worked on the other three things first. Like if you’re digging your grave don’t dig it faster, stop digging your grave. Step 5) Automate. Now I have personally made the mistake of going backwards on all the steps, multiple times.”

““The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.”

““It’s a rapidly changing situation. Think of it like a guided missile, a guided missile is going in the wrong direction at any given time, but it course corrects. You don’t want to be a super precise cannonball, where you don’t even know where the target is”

““A sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

““There is a distinct difference between ignorance, stupidity, and bias; Using them incorrectly it’s a byproduct of one of them.”

““The value of a fully electric autonomous fleet is insanely gigantic, it boggles the mind really; so that will be one of the most valuable things that is ever done in the history of civilization.”

““One may or may not have more money than me, but if you’re talking about wealth, I have a few additional questions; such as about your health, your family, your friends, and your feeling of purpose in this world”

““Prototypes are easy, volume production is hard, positive cash flow is excruciating.”

““Apart from sex, everything in life takes longer than planned”

““Don’t water board me with your shitfukery”

““Wealth is money you get from simply having money in the first place”

““The [stock] market wont peek until the number of millennials peek in 2038. ...The equity markets should enjoy a 20% compounded annual growth rate over the next seven years through 2028”

““ The simulation does not capture the long tail of the weird things that happen in the real world. If the simulation fully captured the real world, well that would be proof we’re living in a simulation. “

““We’re going to explain to you today is it LiDAR is a fools errand, and anyone relying on LiDAR is doomed.... doomed... ...You’ll see”

““You can explain things to people, but you can’t understand things to people.”

““Your time is your most valuable resource, use it wisely.”

““Some people make us better in ways that are not immediately clear to us”

““Some people live to work, some work to live, I do neither; I live for my life.”

““Well that sounds like a unique experience you should tell everyone about”

““I’m sorry but at this particular time that’s looking like CAP. If anything changes, I’ll pull up”

““Everyone is always focusing on the accuracy of the answer, but I find most errors in the quality of the question.”

““Sandy’s Rule; Don’t save me any money, I can’t afford it”

““Quantum entanglement is mostly viewed in the time domain of spin and/or polarization. In the Fourier transform we may encode or find an order of magnitude more correlated information in the entangled space limited by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.”

““The thought behind that was that all relationships end, literally 100% of them. For some lucky enough, death ends the relationship. But for most it's 0 to 7 years.”

““I really care about what people think about me; is something I've never said.”

““What is the ultimate luxury? ...probably having your car driving you. I think that will be the ultimate thing. So like you have a Ferrari, but you have to drive it, that’ll be like so lame.”

““I find it interesting that most people really want love and happiness but rarely give it a proper chance. “

““Just because you say something with confidence doesn’t mean you’re right.”

““I’m a little much for some people.”

““No one knows exactly how much money they have to the penny or dollar, it is however that unit of unknowns that correlate their level of wealth.”

““The people who fear death die a little each day, the people who don’t, only die once.”

““If you never accept anything but the best, sometimes that’s what you’ll get.”

““All models are wrong but some are useful”

““You shouldn’t stress about things you can’t control, and definitely don’t stress about things you can control.”

““In the big picture you’re done anyway, you just don’t know it yet. So make sure you have fun along the way.”

““In the big picture all relationships are done anyway, they just don’t know it yet. So make sure you have fun along the way.”

““Just after the game started, if you were absolutely sure your team was going to win the game, would you keep watching it?”

““Maintain low expectations, medium hopes, and high standards.”

““Everyone you have a relationship with in life has a purpose; some use you, some test your beliefs, some teach you, and every once in a while, someone will bring out the best in you.”

““Life isn’t always straightforward. Happiness or life satisfaction is the sum of the parts. My philosophy is that the more successful you become the less you can justify low quality. If a high percentage of your life is low quality (Low frequency people, low quality activities, etc.) what do you expect your life’s output to be?”

““Define High Quality People: People who are career focused, spend their time on quality activities, have high moral standards and are reasonably intelligent.”

““They are going to disrupt and disintermediate the traditional world order”

““The stock market is a device for transferring money from the inpatient to the patient”

““I’ve died many times, but luckily none of them have been fatal, and that’s just love’s entry fee.”

““When we look at a specific equity chart we somehow must remove the macro market influence from the data before technical analysis.”

““ A well-thought-out critique of whatever you’re doing is as valuable as gold. And you should seek that from everyone you can but particular your friends. Usually your friends know what’s wrong, but they don’t wanna tell you because they don’t wanna hurt you. ... it doesn’t mean your friends right right, very often they are right. You should take the approach that you’re wrong, your goal is to be less wrong”

““You have to constrain a problem a certain amount before it becomes tractable.”

““The definition of success in itself cannot limit the options to reach it. “

““ definitions of success are inherently transient, as reaching them nullifies the goal. “

““”Well, you know, I think Tesla is an amazing company,” he said. "I wish I'd owned or been more on the long side, but it's great....”

““The prettiest people do the ugliest things”

““The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is”

““When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”

““You should not look at the stock price as a representation of the value of a company. You have to value a growth company on what you think it will be worth in the future. Today’s stock price is merely a reflection of what other people think it is worth today.”

““Security in life is mostly a superstition, it does not exist in nature.”

““The happiest people in the world are the people comfortable with uncertainty”

““Because most people are certainty driven, they will give up their hopes, goals and dreams for certainty.”

““Empathy is far more valuable than Sympathy”

““Before you evolve, you can reasonably spend time with just about anyone. To be successful, you can't continue being with low-frequency people for long periods of time. Your days must consistently be spent on high-quality activities. Your choices must become higher quality. Your relationships must become higher quality.”

““The more successful you become, the less you can justify low quality. The more focused you must become. The more consistently your daily behaviors must be high quality — and increasingly higher quality. This isn't about perfection. It's definitely not about being busy all the time. Actually, the balance of true success involves what Tim Ferriss calls "mini-retirements" or regular sabbaticals. Yet, if your daily behaviors are consistently low quality, what do you expect your life's output to be?”

““The majority of people are not successful, so dont do what the majority are doing”

““People overestimate what they can do in a year, but underestimate what they can do in ten years”

““[You] might hate the game, but if you're going to be in the game, you have to play it,”

““If your drunk, please don’t drive home. Drive here. ;)”

““Don't lose faith in this world it's the only one you have”

““The rising tide will lift all boats”

“Elon Time : eventually but usually late Tesla Time: sandbaggingly early In A Tesla: it’s here before we even realized we wanted or needed it

““A persons true value is measured in net personal worth. How much value does one see in themselves.”

““Over time, Investing is something that punishes the lazy, the people that want to take shortcuts all of the time”

“Excerpts from a meeting between Elon Musk and Sandy Munro at Boca Chica; “Organizational structure errors manifest themself in the product” “It’s silicon, LA is silicone valley” “Shorting is a vice disguised as a virtue” “A car that does not have self driving in the future, will be about as popular as a horse” Elon Musk “A lot of right answers to the wrong questions”

““Doing one stupid thing is better than doing nothing.”

““Based on my clear knowledge of my own faults, I don’t see why any girl likes me; Until I look around at every other guy in the place.”

“The Untasted Chocolate: “I like to leave one chocolate in the box that I truly believe would make a great girlfriend, never tasting or otherwise examining it’s true quality, just to give me hope there’s some good in this world.”

“CNBC asked Chamath Palihapitiya if he was selling any of his TSLA stock; he replied “I don’t understand why people are so focused on selling things that work. Let me make up a number; Let’s just say I owned $1 billion a Tesla stock, If I sold it now, I have $1 billion problem. What do I do with that money? The point is when things are working, you’re payed to stay with people that know what they’re doing...”

““ when you say the word inflation to me, it means everything, Inflation means everything is going up, I don’t think that’s the case here in the US, It’s just the things people store value in are going up because people have more value to store. ”

““Everyone is a genius in a bull market “ Ken (CGS) aka chicken Genius (youtuber) 12/2020. “Investors Beware: Stay On The Right Side Of Change.”

““ let me just break it to the fools out there, if you don’t make stuff, theres no stuff “

““That’s a nice shirt, do they make it for men?”

““We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid”

““if there was a factory to pump out engineers, we would invest in that.”

““If you want to be equal weight society it takes a long time and today the indices are overweight the internal combustion engine. Overweight the disrupted and underweight disruptors,"

““The only consistency in the L3 Harris Covid communications, is the inconsistency.”

“Long Term: Investing

“"Rules and regulations are immortal and if we keep making more every year and do not do something about removing them, then eventually we'll be able to do nothing."

““...There’s no doubt about it that [Tesla] is the greatest story ever told.”

““Media has no authority over information.”

““Meetings or what happens when people aren’t working.”

““The stock market can be a bit of a chess game sometimes and everybody is looking at the pawn moving. Of much greater importance are the index funds and shadow funds that will robotically buy shares in TSLA in a regular cadence starting Dec 21 2020 and NEVER ENDING. Being in the S&P 500 adds TSLA to everyone’s 401(k) every paycheck. This Matters.”

“Intelligent hard-working people are harder to find than one might think

““Stupidity: you think you know everything without questioning. Intelligence: You question everything you think you know.”

““ invest in the business, not the stock price”

““Who likes dogs better, certainly not the people who keep them captive. “

““Quality is an experience, not a price point”

““Tesla is a shining star of American engineering, technology and most importantly Manufacturing. I would like to officially welcome manufacturing back to the United States. We have missed you.”

““Multitasking is a myth, we think we’re multitasking but we are in fact doing the switching rapidly between tasks, not doing either of them well.”

““For leaders; Intelligence and Hard work are leading indicators, success is a trailing indicator”

““When the cost of solar and storage is less than the cost of distribution and transmission of electricity to the residential home utilities will no longer have a business.”

““Technology, in of itself, it’s not what causes disruption, it’s convergence.” “... disruptions happened from the outside.”

““Artificial intelligence, learning, is improving not just exponentially, but double exponentially. Put the hardware in the software are improving exponentially, so the combination is double exponential”

““Regarding Tesla: the competition is coming and always will be”

““Societies goal is to enslave you. It will enslave you financially thus enslaving your most valuable resource which is time.”

““...success is in the set of all possible outcomes...”

““Is it better to outsource or vertically integrate? The answer is irrefutably as vertical as Tesla’s trajectory.”

““It’s not the big that eat the small, it’s the fast that eat the slow”

““Familiarity diminishes beauty”

““Without innovative growth companies such as Tesla, Apple, and Amazon; investing in the stock market would be a zero sum game”

““ Tesla stock price is the only true pseudo random number generator”

“Tom Magliozzi: “Happiness Equals Reality Minus Expectations” Trents version; “Happiness is reality minus expectations; so reducing your expectations increases your happiness.”

““Resolve is soluble in alcohol”

““Good ideas are always crazy until they’re not”

““It is important to view knowledge as some sort of semantic tree. Make sure you understand the fundamental principles, i.e. the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves / details or there’s nothing for them to hang on to”

““If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”

““Buy low and sell high or not have bought at all”

““The universe is fundamentally probabilistic”

““If you study and work hard you are not guaranteed success, but if you don’t; you are almost guaranteed failure”

“Egocentric bias is when most people think they do most of the work

““Once you really retire, you’re just walking toward your grave.”

“Elon Musk to Jim Kramer “ You are a hologram: there’s a 50% chance that a hologram doesn’t exist. “

““If you don’t like the way you look naked, I probably won’t either. “

“bon vivant; a person who enjoys a sociable and luxurious lifestyle

“Skatoma. When the expectations don’t match the results; you physiologically can’t see it.

““ I care how people feel, but not what they think “

““The first mistakes I want to correct are the ones I make. “

““...is showing his ignorance, I don’t mean that as an insult, I just mean that in the literal sense”

““ The best part is no part. The best process is no process.”

““You can’t drink all day if you don’t start in the morning “

“if you stay in shape you never have to get in shape. Trentism 6/11/20

““ regardless of the merit of an invention or discovery, It achieves greatness only when it contributes to the well-being of many people. “ Western electric vacuum tube video “A modern aladdins lamp”

““Losing is the only proof you tried” or “Failing is the only proof you tried”

““What is so important about age? Some like less mature some like more.”

“most eligible bachelor and least wanting to be single. Trentism 6/1:20

““Life is like a traffic circle, some effort is required to break the routine”

““...let me break it down for the fools out there; if you don’t make stuff, there’s no stuff”

““Every day you workout, you age less than a day”

““A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two is never sure.”

“Amid the coronavirus stock market craziness; Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan said in 2005: “We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.”

““What Does Not Kill Us Makes Us Panic.”

““The first step to solving any problem is acknowledging the reality of the situation you are in”

““ pause and take stock of your worthless existence”

“You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

““Not much people can do about their IQ. Apart from lowering it.”

“Happiness is not perfect until it’s shared. Love need not be perfect

“Even my faults are a work in progress!

“Thermometers are just speedometers for molecules. Unknown author.

“It’s ok to dream as long as you combine it with hard work. John DeLoreans father.

“Paul Watson, a founder of Greenpeace: "It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true."

“Wiki. the total entropy of the system and its surroundings increases and the process is irreversible in the thermodynamic sense. The increase in entropy accounts for the irreversibility of natural processes, and the asymmetry between future and past.[2]

“says Winston Goodfellow, an automotive author and analyst who judged the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance last month. “After all, if the things aren’t being utilized for their original purpose, there are only so many suckers and cult members out there who will agree that this weird Kool Aid actually tastes good and makes sense to drink.”

“Familiarity Breeds Contempt; The more acquainted one becomes with a person, the more one knows about his or her shortcomings and, hence, the easier it is to dislike that person

“John F Kennedy “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”

“Daniel Conniman (Nobel prize winner). Q: “what it takes to become an expert on something; Hours of practice, Timely feedback, reliable environment. “

““it all makes sense when you don’t think about it”

““All science is either physics or stamp collecting “

“Ryan (EM drive episode of Space Time) The first message we receive from aliens will be “Stop broadcasting; you are in danger!”

““Whenever I cannot jump across my obstacles, I try to find a way around.”

“Big Bang Theory “...you have emotional issues below your conscience that drive your behavior.” Or “...I have emotional issues below my conscience that drives my behavior”

“Emerson Fittipaldi; “A man is like a bicycle; stop peddling and you crash. You have to keep going. “

“Dunning-Kruger Effect. Incompetent people routinely overestimate their skills and abilities. Conversely, highly competent individuals may erroneously assume that tasks easy for them to perform are also easy for other people to perform. The cognitive bias results from an internal illusion in people of low ability and from an external misperception in people of high ability. “If you're incompetent, you can't know you're incompetent ... The skills you need to produce a right answer are exactly the skills you need to recognize [the] right answer.”

““Play Stupid games, win stupid prizes”

““Brevity is the sole of wit”

“Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don't blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being "in love"

“Hedonism: "a school of thought that argues that pleasure is the most important intrinsic good. A hedonist strives to maximize net pleasure"

“Relativistic constraint: v_x^2 + v_t^2 = c^2 Economic constraint: T_work + T_leisure = T_total Bridge Equation: tau = t * sqrt(1 - v^2/c^2) Which gives the wage: W(v) = R * t * sqrt(1 - v^2/c^2) Both are conservation laws forcing allocation along a fixed budget. The genius move was recognizing that since both have time as a fundamental axis, you could potentially overlay them.”

““The power in a relationship lies with the one who needs it the least"

““a world without coincidences would be even stranger”

““When you look in the mirror all you can see are your flaws, that’s not what other people see”

““People should be Less risk-averse when there’s not much at risk”

“Journalist “BYD, which is the west coast, is ramping up production of their electric vehicle, Wait why are you laughing...” “...[laughing] have you seen their car?”

““There’s a fine line between narcissism, and greatness “

““The stone age didn’t end because humans ran out of stones.”

“"Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication"

“"Pleasure or happiness can not be reverse-engineered"

“"Human beings are actors whose endeavors bring about consequences, and among these is pleasure."

“"happiness can not be pursued; it must ensue..." And "pleasure is, and must remain, a side- effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself"

“"I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there. "

““If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it”

“"The progressive development of man is virtually dependent on invention. It's ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of of mind over the material world."

““If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

“"Life is a waterfall, we are one in the river, and one again after the fall."

“Why didn’t you finish college? “Don't let schooling interfere with your education. I can live for two months on a good compliment. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

“"I love lamp."

“"Life is a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you're gonna get." Mrs Gump/Sally Field in Forrest Gump (1994) "Oh my gosh, look at that fluffy unicorn! He's so fluffy, I'm gonna die!"

“"The cold never bothered me anyway."

“"Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler."

“In the world I see - you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway.

“Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

“A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.

“Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

“If I did have a tumor, I'd name it Marla.

“My suitcase was vibrating?

“Nine times out of ten it's an electric razor, but every once in a while...

“I wasn't really dying. I wasn't host to cancer or parasites. I was the warm little center that the life of this world crowded around.

“Home was a condo on the fifteenth floor of a filing cabinet for widows and young professionals. The walls were solid concrete. A foot of concrete is important when your next-door neighbor lets their hearing aid go and have to watch game-shows at full volume. Or when a volcanic blast of debris that used to be your furniture and personal effects blows out of your floor-to-ceiling windows and sails flaming into the night. I suppose these things happen.

“"Satisfaction is elusive in the face of too many options"

“"self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important"