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“I had determined to lose a lot of weight. So I was really skinny by 1967, 68 I mean, I think it was 129 pounds. Then I was going to go to the, I think it was the Presidio and I had to meet with an Army doctor and my friends gave me a couple of joints, and I stuck them in... So if you want, yeah, man, he went on a starvation diet, a protest diet and then smoked a lot of weed.”

“You are like one of the main voices of Rock & Roll in America, if you really think about it. Your songs, I mean, you have so many gigantic hits. You know, when the UFC has a lot of walkout songs, you know, when fighters come out and walk out, a lot of guys walk out to your music. I don't even know if you are aware of it. But Fortunate Son is a big one. Bad Moon Rising, that's another big one people walk out to.”

“I got sued for sounding like myself. I had made a new song called The Old Man Down the Road. It was on my album, it was my comeback on Center Field. I had finally gotten away from Fantasy Records, which is where Creedence was, and Saul Sands, who owned it. When you finally escape and get success over somewhere else, the former people tend to be jealous, I guess. He was suing me.”

“Most people had no idea how evil the music business can be. Unless they were told, they had no idea. They bought the albums, they loved the musicians, and they just liked the music. They didn't know what was going on behind the scenes. They didn't know how these people own your catalog, they own the music, they own the publishing, they try to just get as much money out of you as humanly possible, own your name, own your likeness.”

“How unfair would it be that at some point, somebody takes ownership of your style and now say, you have to go back and invent some other style, be some other person. You know, it's just that would be really difficult. Imagine Dylan or Springsteen or all the other people that have their own style, having to reinvent and change to something else. Well, it's a blessing to the world, I think, that I prevailed.”

“I got a hair transplant and it was useless. I did a joke about it. I go, having a hair transplant is like taking people that are healthy and moving them into a neighborhood where everyone's dying. This is just like, where did Bob go? He just fucking flew off the face of the earth.”

“Mine is just... You know, I don't like shaving. I only gain weight in two places. Stomach, and right here. And also I have a kind of a thin frame. So it's really not attractive. It's more laziness. I don't have to worry about it.”

“One thing that... Because I listen to it a lot too, because sometimes you're listening and you're like, this is insane. This is crazy. And he would always, always treat the guest with deference, you know, respect. And I, that must have been, because there were things that were, you know, if you go back to all the episodes, that were kind of contradictory.”

“At the bar, there's a TV. And as you walk towards it, it's playing... It's like staticky until you get closer to it. And then as your character gets closer to it, it's Art Bell talking about aliens and stuff. And I know I'm not doing it justice, but it was such a cool, smart idea.”

“I should have done it a long time ago. It's so much better and I don't have to talk to a barber. I don't have to listen to boring stories while they hold you hostage with a pair of scissors.”

“The key is, don't try and extinguish the habit, rather try and change it, find a new behavior, like eating M&Ms, that corresponds to the old cue, and that delivers something similar to the old reward. And in doing so, you're kind of overriding that neural pathway inside your brain.”

“I actually did come up with a phrase Keystone Habit. My wife is a biologist and there's this concept of Keystone Species. And so I was talking through this idea... it just makes it so easy to like take the next step and like go out the door, right? Like you probably at this point, when you are running, you're not even thinking about running as you start.”

“There's this phrase in the CEO world, something like you don't rise to your willpower, you fall to your systems, or something like that, where it's like the system is what dictates whether you're going to be successful or not, not like willpower or not how you feel. And the point being at a company, you have to have systems because that's what you default to.”

“Our brain actually is kind of skeptical of our stated preferences, but it pays attention to how we behave to figure out who we really are. And so this act of cleaning up every day at three o'clock... it's not about organizing the clutter, it's about revealing to ourselves, proving to ourselves that we are the kinds of people who do this.”

“I was talking to Jim Collins, the guy who wrote Good to Great last night on stage because he has a new book out. And he talked about the bewildering fog of success. And that year, 2013, was exactly that for me. Like on paper, it was the best year of my life. I had a best-selling book. I won a Pulitzer Prize. In reality, it was like the hardest year of my life.”

“The crown jewel of everything they own in their portfolio is Ferrari. And Exor holds around 20% of Ferrari's total shares outstanding. And they actually have extra voting rights attached that gives them about 30% control over the governance of the company. So they are easily the largest shareholder in Ferrari.”

“Stilantis and CNH are two examples of that because they're both spinoffs or in some way derivative of that original fiat business. And CNH, which is basically an alternative competitor to John Deere, it's a very, very cyclical industry and it's currently in a down cycle. And then Stilantis is really not only in a historically bad industry for investors, which is automotive, but they've also struggled operationally too.”

“Alphabet has been one of our earliest additions to the portfolio. And it has been our biggest position ever since. So especially after it doubled for us when it got past the AI fears, I think it's currently close to 14% of the portfolio. And then the next biggest stocks are Airbnb at 11.5%, Uber at 10.5% and Adobe at close to 8%.”

“Holding company discounts are not at all unusual. You basically discount them because you are also forced to hold assets that you're not that excited about. And there's a lot more friction if you were to hold those companies yourself. And if Exor wants to sell a stake, for example, they first have to pay taxes. And it's also quite difficult just given the size of the positions that Exor actually holds.”

“The general idea has been to run a portfolio with about 15 to 20 names. And that means that, in theory, every position would be about 5 to 6% of the portfolio. And there are obviously different levels of conviction and risk profiles depending on each stock. So, for example, Alphabet has been one of our earliest additions to the portfolio.”

“The fact that Nvidia's downstream supply chain and our downstream demand is so large, they're willing to make the investment upstream. And so, if you look at GTC and people are marveled by the scale of GTC, it's the entire universe of AI all in one place. I bring them together so that the downstream could see the upstream, the upstream could see the downstream, and all of them could see all the advances in AI.”

“I think the number of agents are going to grow exponentially. The number of tool users are going to grow exponentially. And it's very likely that the number of instances of all these tools are going to skyrocket. Today we're limited by the number of engineers. Tomorrow, those engineers are going to be supported by a bunch of agents. And we're going to be exploring out the design space like you've never seen explored before.”

“At some level, the instantaneous demand is greater than the supply upstream and downstream in the world. And it could be at any instance, we could be limited by the number of plumbers, which actually happens. I actually went to the hardest one. Yeah, plumbers and electricians. And the reason for that is because, if we're too far apart, the industry swarms it.”

“If our next several years is a trillion dollars in scale, we have the supply chain to do it. Without our reach, the velocity of our business, just as there's cash flow, there's supply chain flow, there are turns. Nobody is going to build a supply chain for an architecture if the architecture, the business turns is low. Our ability to sustain the scale is only because our downstream demand is so great.”

“The input is electron, the output is tokens. That is in the middle, Nvidia. And our job is to do as much as necessary, as little as possible to enable that transformation to be done at incredible capabilities. Making that token, it's like making one molecule more valuable than another molecule. Making one token more valuable than another. The amount of artistry, engineering, science, invention that goes into making that token valuable, obviously we're watching it happening in real time.”

“I'm not someone who's like, oh, I've won that, so I need to win it again. It was like, I've done it. Like, I've done the thing. I've completed it. So then it was really difficult to get that fire back.”

“One eight eight and one four four. At the time, it's, like, five times body weight or something like that. I was so embarrassed of it at the time, though. You know? Like, not embarrassed, but I was really shy about it.”

“It's one of the hardest things I've ever done. But I can honestly say that, like the grip, the pain in your hands. It's so painful. People don't appreciate that you have to put your fingers through those hoops, and when you've got big hands as well, those hoops hurt.”

“The women's seventy six kilo class was the most watched class. Yeah. In the culture of strongman, yes, that we wanna see the big heavy freaks, but there's clearly an audience out there.”

“I could come on here and give Billy big bollocks and be like, I wanna do this, but I'm a better friend when I'm happy, and lifting heavy makes me happy.”

“If you think of the engineering design process, it's based on one identifying a problem or a goal. Then it's about collecting a lot of data around that particular problem or goal, then defining your requirements, then designing and building a solution, and then eventually testing it for what the outcome would look like. And that discipline and rational thinking and data driven analysis actually helps you in being able to run a company.”

“Life is short. Set big goals, whether it's how much value you're creating, whether how much profits you're growing, whether a certain project that you think needs three years to get done and how you can get it done in three months. Set big goals and do that at work. Do that in your personal life. Because when you set big goals, you achieve great things. If you set small goals, you achieve small small things.”

“Generally, we break it down into three broad categories and this is the work side. Number one at work would be, are they good at what they do? Or do they have a high intellect? Number two is, are they serious about work? Are they hard workers? And the third one is, are you collegial? Are you somebody who gets along with the rest of the team, who try to look for what's best in the team?”

“My mind, what ego is, you think that you're so good at something that you stop learning. I think in the world of business, you're dealing every day with with either problems or goals you wanna accomplish. And a engineering mindset gives you a framework of how to solve for these problems.”

“As an engineer, you're thinking perfection. You're thinking the process has to work just right. But the reality is people don't operate that way. Engineering on its own gives you a framework. However, how you can transform or translate that framework and how you manage people and love people and believe in them and believe what's best in them is the other ingredient to be able to then enable you to deliver good outcomes.”

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“Einstein (who claimed that he hadn't even heard of the famous Michaelson Morely experiment which is supposed to have motivated special relativity until after he had come up with it)”

“The first successful measurement of stellar parallax was in 1838. That's a 2,000-year verification loop.”

“Why did it take till 1859 to lay out an idea whose essence every farmer since antiquity must have observed?”

“Aliens will likely have a VERY different science + tech stack that us.”

“Clearly human science is able to make progress faster than raw experimental falsification/verification would imply, and in cases where experiments are very ambiguous.”