Machine translation of signs, text, and speech brings down language barriers and facilitates ever more cross-cultural meetings of like minds.
Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation.
I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.
