People in the high-tech sector are living with change every hour. They can get up in the morning and find themselves behind already.
Innovation accelerates and compounds.
I saw the logarithmic growth of computer power.
The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
My talent is getting things to work that people think are many decades in the future. I say we can make them happen now.
Right now, nearly all the apps on Facebook take a week to build. No more.
On AngelList, we get 100 new companies created a day. That's an insane flood.
In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.
It's been an interesting life. I feel like I'm 40 years old at the age of 16.
We've got a bit of growth a bit earlier than expected.
Blitzscaling is always managerially inefficient - and it burns through a lot of capital quickly. But you have to be willing to take on these inefficiencies in order to scale up. That's the opposite of what large organizations optimize for.
Imagine if Steve Jobs or Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein were all alive 10, 20, 30 years before we know them to be alive; it would have advanced the world that much sooner.
Because of the life I've had, I'd grown up quicker than most people.
I don't really have childhood-type memories. I had to grow up very young.
Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly.
I never fully got to experience my childhood. I've spent a lot of time having to sort of grow myself up in many ways and also to sort of slow myself down and allow myself to live at the pace that I am.
When you consider that our technology has advanced from the first telephones to smart phones in roughly a century, it's easy to understand why it seems like tomorrow is arriving faster than it ever did.
Each stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it.
Scientific power is like inherited wealth; attained without discipline. You read about what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young. You can make progress very fast.
Artistic mediums go through phases where progress happens really rapidly, and then other moments where it slows down.
Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks.
In the second year of a system it's easier to get through your progressions faster.
I grew up very fast. I was always hanging around with older kids.
If we have access to nuclear energy, that adds to our maneuverability in ensuring energy security as India marches on, on the path to accelerated development.
Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had a terror of growing up, which became more and more accentuated as I grew older.
