Baseball Prospectus | Manufactured Runs: The Madness of King Bill
“If you aren’t explicit in deciding that what you’re looking at is relative, that doesn’t mean you’ll be answering things in absolute terms, it means you’ll be answering things relative to a baseline that you haven’t decided on with a clear rationale, and probably without awareness of how that baseline is affecting your analysis.”

Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup – Class 10 Notes Essay
“It’s hard; entrepreneurs are congenitally wired to be too early. And being too early is a bigger problem for entrepreneurs than not being correct. It’s very hard to sit and just wait for things to arrive. It almost never works. You burn through your capital. You end up with outdated architecture when the timing is right.”

Capitalism—Posner – The Becker-Posner Blog
” Greenspan and other like-minded economists and political leaders were wrong to think capitalism self-regulating; they neglected the need for an institutional structure, and a culture, that differentiate successful from unsuccessful capitalist economies.”

10 Timeframes | Contents Magazine
“If we are going to ask people, in the form of our products, in the form of the things we make, to spend their heartbeats—if we are going to ask them to spend their heartbeats on us, on our ideas, how can we be sure, far more sure than we are now, that they spend those heartbeats wisely?”