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“What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“In no way did any of this discourage or deter Wilbur and Orville Wright, any more than the fact that they had had no college education, no formal technical training, no experience working with anyone other than themselves, no friends in high places, no financial backers, no government subsidies, and little money of their own. Or”
― David McCullough, The Wright Brothers

“Meanwhile, an article in the September issue of the popular McClure’s Magazine written by Simon Newcomb, a distinguished astronomer and professor at Johns Hopkins University, dismissed the dream of flight as no more than a myth. And were such a machine devised, he asked, what useful purpose could it possibly serve?”
― David McCullough, The Wright Brothers

“It had taken four years.”
― David McCullough, The Wright Brothers

“Well, they’ve made a flight.”
― David McCullough, The Wright Brothers

“What had transpired that day in 1903, in the stiff winds and cold of the Outer Banks in less than two hours time, was one of the turning points in history, the beginning of change for the world far greater than any of those present could possibly have imagined.”
― David McCullough, The Wright Brothers

“An ecosystem is a web of mutually beneficial relationships that enhances the value of all of the participants.”
― Anonymous