In the modern world, we live in a perpetual echo chamber. Although technology has torn down some barriers, it has ended up erecting others. We friend people like us on Facebook. We follow people like us on Twitter. We read blogs and newspapers that vibrate on the same political frequency. It's easy to connect only with our tribe and disconnect from the others. Just unsubscribe, unfollow, or unfriend.
- from Think Like a Rocket Scientist book by Ozan Varol
To be a universe-denter, you must be unreasonable enough to think you can dent the universe.
- from Think Like a Rocket Scientist book by Ozan Varol
Uncertainty leads to joy, discovery, and the fulfillment of your full potential. Uncertainty means doing things no one has done before and discovering things that, for at least a brief moment, no other person has seen. Life offers more of itself when we treat uncertainty as a friend, not a foe.
- from Think Like a Rocket Scientist book by Ozan Varol
If we explore only well-trodden paths, if we avoid games we don't know how to play, we'll remain stagnant. Only when you're dancing in the dark, only when you don't know where the light switch is - or even what a light switch is - can progress begin.
- from Think Like a Rocket Scientist book by Ozan Varol
The modern world doesn't call for finished products. It calls for works in progress, where perpetual improvement wins the game.
- from Think Like a Rocket Scientist book by Ozan Varol