You did good on that bird," Ginnie Sue told me. "You strike me as the kind of girl who's one day going to be eating roast chicken and those on-fire desserts just as much as you want.

It doesn't matter how good your engineering team is if they are not given something worthwhile to build.

The moment we stop thinking is when our happiness begins.

The ability to generate new ideas has more to do with breaking with old habits of thinking than with coming up with as many ideas as possible.

You aren’t trying to minimise your failure rate; you’re trying to get a few conversations going.

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

Childhood boundary developmental stages are the bonding stage, separation and individuation stage, and rapprochement stage.

Every game is composed of two parts, an outer game and an inner game. The outer game is played against an external opponent to overcome external obstacles, and to reach an external goal.

The concept of vertical progress: Thiel introduces the idea of vertical progress, which involves creating something new and moving from 0 to 1. He contrasts it with horizontal progress, which is incremental and involves copying or improving existing ideas. According to Thiel, vertical progress has a more significant impact on society and is crucial for economic growth.

Only in the present moment can the truth be found.