Brian

“The next great war wont arrive until everyone who remembers the last one is dead. You think that nuclear war is inevitable. I agree with Plato that only the dead have seen an end to war. And people dont fight with rocks when they have guns. Etcetera and so on.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

“Amazon Go remained a money loser. But Bezos was still looking at it as a bet on computer vision and artificial intelligence, the kind of long-term, high-stakes experiment that was necessary to produce meaningful outcomes for large companies. As he wrote in his 2015 shareholder letter: We all know that if you swing for the fences, you’re going to strike out a lot, but you’re also going to hit some home runs. The difference between baseball and business, however, is that baseball has a truncated outcome distribution. When you swing, no matter how well you connect with the ball, the most runs you can get is four. In business, every once in a while, when you step up to the plate, you can score 1,000 runs. This long-tailed distribution of returns is why it’s important to be bold.”
― Brad Stone, Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire

“In 2017, Amazon spent $22.6 billion on R&D, compared to Alphabet ($16.6 billion), Intel ($13.1 billion), and Microsoft ($12.3 billion).”
― Brad Stone, Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire

“The fact is, people who are metabolically healthy do not get hungry unless they’ve been extremely active, skipped a couple of meals, or have been undereating for a few days in a row. When they do get hungry, the next meal they eat will taste really, really good. As Miguel de Cervantes observed long ago, “Hunger is the best sauce in the world.”
― Catherine Shanahan, The Fatburn Fix: Boost Energy, End Hunger, and Lose Weight by Using Body Fat for Fuel