Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

These mandarin-precious-princess-and-the-pea notions about a writer’s “special place” just didn’t match my life.

AI without validation is too unreliable to be of use in any serious application.

I hear repeatedly, particularly in developing countries: "Applied research is what we need."

I pretty much always just get up and have like a big breakfast and then go climbing. That’s kind of the standard.

Oh, I don’t know. I mean, like, just like, I don’t know, environmental propaganda or something. Or like the meat stuff. I’m like pretty stoked on all the vegetarian type of stuff now, just because it’s such an easy way to minimize your impact on the planet. And it’s just, you know, I mean, it just solves so many different environmental issues. But I don’t know.

Well, don’t you think that we are all like that? I mean in some ways the deepest fear for a lot of people is getting to the end of their life and think that they did it wrong.

Yeah. I, I think an interesting thing with that is that like, is it even failure if you've learned from it and you've taken those lessons onto your next project or the next thing that you're working on? And it's like, that's not necessarily a failure. It's all just part of a long-term learning process.

I’ve always wished I had stronger fingers, and most of my friends always have stronger fingers.

It was probably before my career, I had an accident when I was younger, I fell down a mountain, it was a little bit ridiculous but, I slipped unprepared on the ice. It was probably one of the few times where was sure that I was about to die.