Michael Moritz Quotes

“It's obviously unfair to paint with a broad brush here, but the germ of an idea for a breakthrough in technology doesn't come out of a business school curriculum. It comes out of a laboratory or a math lecture or a physics tutorial.”

“Man's attitude toward great qualities in others is often the same as toward high mountains - he admires them but he prefers to walk around them.”

“Man's attitude toward great qualities in others is often the same as toward high mountains - he admires them but he prefers to walk around them.”

“Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.”

“Love makes of the wisest man a fool and of the most foolish woman a sage.”

“Maybe we're on the wrong side of some metaphorical bridge where the grass is crusty and not grass at all, but sharp little spines of glass. I dunno, Moritz.But the one little speck of green that I get is your letters, so please never stop writing me.You got that?Never stop.Because you'll never meet me and it's the closest we can get.”

“The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power to obtain the experiences and the views of the future by prolonging our lives forward in this direction. However, it is well possible in a certain sense to prolong our lives backwards by acquiring the experiences of those who existed before us and by learning to know their views as well as if we were their contemporaries. The means for doing this is also an elixir of life.”

“With age comes wisdom and with wisdom comes age. I guess I too am growing older.”

“The standard treatments for cancer are not meant to heal, but to destroy.”

“Cancer - a more or less permanent traffic jam in the body.”