As the saying goes…

What is essential is invisible to the eyes.

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In The Little Prince, the fox speaks these words. Marco recalls them in Italian.

First people create habits, and then habits create people.

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You cannot plant a tree on the day you want shade.

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If you wait until you are ready, you will die waiting.

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Fall seven times, get up eight.

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If you do not like change, you will like becoming irrelevant at work even less.

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The problem with humanity is that the idiots are absolutely certain, while intelligent people are full of doubts.

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What gets you into trouble is not what you do not know, but what you know for sure that just is not so.

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If everything looks like a nail to you, the only solution is always a hammer.

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You can delegate your knowledge, but you cannot delegate your understanding.

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A related thought appears on Karpathy’s blog, where he refers to an unnamed tweet. The original attribution remains unresolved.

We confuse what we have spent with what is worth spending tomorrow.

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They do not promise you a salary, but they promise freedom, potential and opportunities that are hard to find elsewhere. They also come with total and absolute chaos.

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The subject is the creator economy. Marco jokes about inventing a quotation on the spot; this is not an attribution to MrBeast.

Cooking makes our nostrils quiver with intelligence.

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Do not judge a person by the quality of their answers, but by the quality of their questions.

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

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There is nothing more useless than continuing to do efficiently things that should not be done at all.

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Marco presents this version as an approximate paraphrase.

I have always wanted to be somebody, to become somebody. Only now have I realised that I should have been much more specific.

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No one can compete with you on being you.

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You do not believe you are better than anyone. But, on the other hand, you do not think you are beneath a damn soul.

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You are never ready for the future. At best, you are prepared.

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When a true chess player thinks, they manage to do something very interesting in chess: they make the future belong to them.

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Marco recounts a thought by chess master Pierluigi Piscopo. This is not a verified direct quotation from Piscopo.

A genius’s main problem is being understood.

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The main enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge.

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Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while it is happening.

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Marco qualifies the reference with “or whoever it was”; the attribution is not confirmed.

The weapons of influence affect us and work so well because we have lived with them all our lives. They have become so familiar that we no longer see them.

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We need intelligence after we have done something, not before we start. Before we start, it is just the tool we use to justify the countless reasons why it is better never to begin.

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The difference between almost right and right is the same as the difference between a firefly and a lightning bolt.

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Twain’s text compares the almost right word with the right word. Marco broadens the analogy to almost right and right.

On the one hand, we invent machines to free ourselves from work. But then we end up working more to make these damn machines work.

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The majority do not think for themselves because they think with the mind of the majority.

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In your head, the map often stays the same. But the map is not the territory.

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The mind is like a parachute: if you want it to work well, you have to open it.

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Do not earn by selling your time. Earn with your mind.

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Marco paraphrases the maxim “Earn with your mind, not your time”. The Italian wording is not a literal quotation.

Whoever controls the menu controls the options.

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Measure what matters, not what is easy to count.

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Optimise the boring, humanise the memorable.

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I am so busy, so swamped, so short of time that I do not even have time to tell other people how little time I have.

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Knowing that you do not know is not really the problem. That is easy. The problem is not knowing that you do not know.

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Normal people have never made history.

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When a situation gets strange, really strange like this era we live in, normal people end up becoming useless.

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A place for everything, and everything in its place.

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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

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A man with one watch knows the time. A man with two watches does not know a damn thing.

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Marco makes clear that this is his humorous rewording.

There is an enormous difference between talking and communicating. Talking is like throwing a ball. Communicating is hoping someone catches it.

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Fear kills the mind.

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When it comes to persuasion, pushing harder does not work. What works is understanding that more deeply.

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If you sleep, you do not catch any fish.

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The pessimist is often right, but the optimist often succeeds.

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Trying to please everyone is a sign of mediocrity.

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Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.

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We are not doing something wrong. We are simply in the wrong place.

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There are people out there so poor that the only thing they have is money.

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If you do not design your own future, someone else will do it for you. But they may not design it in your interests.

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Marco himself expresses uncertainty about the attribution.

What is my favourite project? The next one. It is always the next one.

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In work, you only need to be right once.

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Reasonable people adapt to the world. Unreasonable people insist on adapting the world to themselves. And all progress depends on unreasonable people.

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Man is the only creature that refuses to be what it is.

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Repetition, repetition, repetition.

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The answer to the Rubik’s Cube is inside you. But it is wrong.

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Revolutionaries make it into history books, but those who evolve make it onto boards of directors.

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Today, the revolution is not made by whoever has the strongest principles and values, but by whoever can pay the longest, most expensive electricity bill in history.

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A satirical comment about the energy AI requires.

When you set up a corporation to start a revolution, you have not betrayed anyone. The honeymoon is simply over. The rest is accounting, while we keep paying the subscription.

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A joke about the relationship between revolution and business.

Some people have a fire inside. If it burns too fiercely, it burns you. Otherwise, it keeps you warm.

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Marco refers to Rocky; that reference does not establish the original author.

Monkey see, monkey do.

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A shortcut is the surest way to get lost.

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Money does not change you; it amplifies you. If you were stupid when you were poor, when you get rich you are simply a stupid person with a swimming pool.

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Money is an excellent servant but a terrible master.

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The problem is not how much tax you pay. The real problem is what you have left after paying it.

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From promotional content about Edenred meal vouchers; this is not tax guidance.

Technology is an excellent servant but a terrible master.

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Everything is foreign to us; only time is ours.

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Seneca, Letters to Lucilius, 1.3. Marco’s Italian rendering omits the address to Lucilius.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.

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Speed is the form of ecstasy that technology has given us.

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If you are not winning, you are losing.

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