Quotations
Sic parvis magna. Great things from small beginnings.There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.I used to say: I have to build ToBePolo so I can build Stareg. Now I can finally say: I’ve almost finished ToBePolo, so I can start Stareg.When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.Founder mode.Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. And believe me, it will be enough.People used to say: “this meeting could have been an email”. Now they say: “this meeting could have been a prompt”.Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself.Tokens, like salt, give you high blood pressure.The first question I asked her was, “Do you ever think about electric cars?”Wasn't great. But recently, it's been more effective.Everything’s computer.Everything was human.In 2004 I was losing 5 million euros a day. […] “Where is everybody?” “They’re on holiday.” “On holiday from what?”Don’t share your SSH key, not even with your girlfriend.In his Pontic triumph he displayed among the show-pieces of the procession an inscription of but three words, VENI, VIDI, VICI: not indicating the events of the war, as the others did, but the speed with which it was finished.I am a man, a grandfather if you like, at the service of the institutions.It’s time to build.Competition is for losers.ToBePolo is made for lazy users: even Sam Altman would learn a trade with us.Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.I’m on my own odyssey: I have my Penelope, and I think I have my Ithaca.Adjectives seduce, nouns bore.Talk is cheap. Show me the code.He had already given away nearly all the crown property when Perdiccas asked him: “But for thyself, O king, what art thou leaving?” “My hopes,” the king answered. “In these, then,” said Perdiccas, “we also will share who make the expedition with thee.”Parmenio, because it was now late in the day, objected to their risking the passage; but Alexander declared that the Hellespont would blush for shame, if, after having crossed that strait, he should be afraid of the Granicus.He plunged into the stream with thirteen troops of horsemen. And since he was charging against hostile missiles and precipitous positions covered with infantry and cavalry, and through a stream that swept men off their feet and surged about them, he seemed to be acting like a frenzied and foolish commander rather than a wise one.Shake your own hand, because nobody else will. Not even for 10 tokens.Holy flying f***, that thing took off. Look at that! That’s unreal!Make something people want.I didn’t just want to go to the parties. I wanted to have the power to make them fail.Everything you do, do it for heavy-duty.Do we prefer peace, or the air conditioning on? That is the question we have to ask ourselves.Will everything arrive exactly when I say? Probably not. But being late is very different from never delivering.Starting a company is like eating glass and staring into the abyss.Credibility is describing things you have actually lived, things you know.Software is eating the world.Depriving a young person of their future is one of the gravest forms of inequality.The future will look like the future.Oh my f***ing God. Well, maybe that was a little too hard.Move fast and break things.Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe fuck yourself.We are so back.The euro is irrevocable.Prompt to matter.You want to wake up in the morning and think the future is going to be great.The best way to predict the future is to invent it.There you go, go on!Bottom line, you want to be technology agnostic.Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in!Pass it to Claude.Sometimes even central bankers’ hearts get used.We believe in accelerationism.I would like to die on Mars, just not on impact.Relax, don’t sleep.I was very upset too. But the important thing is that you don’t believe it.My life, it’s not a walk in the woods.Success maybe, excitement guaranteed!Ready to do whatever it takes for ToBePolo. Believe me, it will be enough.Sic parvis magna. Great things from small beginnings.
Sic parvis magna. Great things from small beginnings.
Francis Drake - Heraldic motto SourceFrancis Drake - Letter to Francis Walsingham, 17 May 1587 SourceToBePolo’s founder - 3 Laws of Elind, no. 221Elon Musk - 60 Minutes, CBS, 2012 SourcePaul Graham - Founder Mode, September 2024 SourceMario Draghi - London, 26 July 2012 SourceToBePolo’s founder - 3 Laws of Elind, no. 211Steve Jobs - Stanford, 2005 SourceToBePolo’s founder - 3 Laws of Elind, no. 203Elon Musk - Computer History Museum, 2013 SourceDonald Trump - In a Tesla on the White House lawn, 11 March 2025 SourceToBePolo’s founder - 3 Laws of Elind, no. 198Sergio Marchionne - Bocconi University, 2013 SourceToBePolo’s founder - 3 Laws of Elind, no. 217Suetonius - Life of Caesar, 37 (after J. C. Rolfe) SourceMario Draghi - Press conference, 22 December 2021 SourceMarc Andreessen - It’s Time to Build, 18 April 2020 SourcePeter Thiel - How to Start a Startup, 2014 SourceToBePolo’s founder - 3 Laws of Elind, no. 224Elon Musk - Fast Company, 2005 SourceToBePolo’s founder - 3 Laws of Elind, no. 215Tony Pagoda - Paolo Sorrentino, Everybody’s Right SourceLinus Torvalds - Linux kernel mailing list, 25 August 2000 SourcePlutarch - Life of Alexander, 15 (after B. Perrin) SourcePlutarch - Life of Alexander, 16 (after B. Perrin) SourceToBePolo’s founder - 3 Laws of Elind, no. 226Elon Musk - Watching Falcon Heavy lift off, 6 February 2018 SourcePaul Graham - Y Combinator’s motto SourceJep Gambardella - The Great Beauty, Paolo Sorrentino, 2013 SourceToBePolo’s founder - 3 Laws of Elind, no. 225Mario Draghi - Press conference, 6 April 2022 SourceToBePolo’s founder - 3 Laws of Elind, no. 218Elon Musk - Quoting his friend Bill Lee, 2010 SourceMassimo Pericolo - Rolling Stone interview, 2021 SourceMarc Andreessen - The Wall Street Journal, 20 August 2011 SourceMario Draghi - Rimini Meeting, 18 August 2020 SourceToBePolo’s founder - X, 28 August 2026 SourceElon Musk - The Cybertruck window, 21 November 2019 SourceMark Zuckerberg - Facebook’s motto, letter to investors, 1 February 2012 SourceDignam - The Departed, Martin Scorsese, 2006 SourceToBePolo’s founder - X, 6 November 2024 SourceMario Draghi - European Parliament, 6 February 2017 SourceToBePolo’s founder - 3 Laws of Elind, no. 212Elon Musk - Making Life Multiplanetary, 2017 SourceAlan Kay - Xerox PARC, 1971 SourceToBePolo’s founder - 3 Laws of Elind, no. 208Elon Musk - Carrying a sink, 26 October 2022 SourceToBePolo’s founder - 3 Laws of Elind, no. 194Mario Draghi - Chamber of Deputies, 21 July 2022 SourceMarc Andreessen - The Techno-Optimist Manifesto, 16 October 2023 SourceElon Musk - SXSW, 2013 SourceToBePolo’s founder - 3 Laws of Elind, no. 195Mario Draghi - Receiving Striscia la notizia’s Tapiro d’oro, 2008 SourceToBePolo’s founder - 3 Laws of Elind, no. 10Elon Musk - Before Starship’s flight, 14 April 2023 SourceToBePolo - A riff inspired by Mario Draghi SourceFrancis Drake - Heraldic motto Source
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