"I don't want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me."

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition. It's not a matter of being better at what you do – it's a matter of being different at what you do.

The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

The mathematics of spin glasses revealed a hidden structure that applies to many seemingly unrelated problems.