The Wisdom Wall

“And so causality for a lot of problems in the world doesn't matter. We just want to emulate the system and predict the outcome.”

“within the world's languages and text, there's a fair amount of reasoning that's encoded in it, and we describe a lot of reasoning things, and so if you were To say that a few step reasoning is somehow learnable from just reading things. I wouldn't be surprised. You know, for a lot of us, we get our common sense and we…”

“your organization should be the architecture of the machinery of building the product. Right. That's what a company is.”

“in a command and control system, the person who you reports to has more power than you. And the reason why they have more power than you is because they're closer to the source of information than you are. In our company, the information is disseminated fairly quickly to a lot of different people, and it's usually at a…”

“you could do all the right smart things and still fail. You could do a whole bunch of dumb things, and I did many of them, and still succeed.”

“And my point there is the super point of entrepreneurs, which is your superpowers are partly your ignorance, that you don't know how hard it is.”

“And for certain segments of the market where the technology is never good enough, like three D graphics, when we chose the right technology, three D graphics is never good enough. And we call it back then, three D gives us sustainable technology opportunity because it's never good enough. And so your technology can…”

“And so when you push your chips in, what you're really doing is you're, when you bet the farm, you're saying, I'm going to take everything in the future, all the risky things, and I'm going to pull it in advance. And that is probably the lesson. And to this day, everything that we can prefetch, everything in the future…”

“the disconnection between where NVIDIA's computing is done versus where it's enjoyed, If you can separate that, your market opportunity explodes.”

“A data center is distinguished from a desktop computer versus a cell phone, not by the processor in it. A desktop computer in a data center uses the same CPUs, uses the same GPUs, apparently, right? Very close. And so it's not the chip, it's not the processing chip that describes it, but it's the networking of it, it's…”

“Observation that whereas cloud computing started in hyperscale, which is about taking commodity components, a lot of users, and virtualizing many users on top of one computer, AI is really about distributed computing where one job, one training job, um, is orchestrated across millions of processors.”

“Oftentimes, if you created the market, you ended up having, you know, what, what people describe as moats. Because if you build your product right, and it's enabled an entire ecosystem around you, To help serve that end market, you've essentially created a platform. Sometimes it's a, it's a product based platform.…”

“And I think that that's kind of the, the superpower of a entrepreneur. They don't know how hard it is, and they only ask themselves, how hard can it be? And to this day, I, I trick my brain into thinking, how hard can it be? Because you have to.”

“You want to pave the way to future opportunities. You can't wait until the opportunity is sitting in front of you for you to reach out for it, and so you have to anticipate. You know, our job as CEO is to look around corners and anticipate where will opportunities be someday, and even if I'm not exactly sure what and…”

“There's plenty of time. If you prioritize yourself, uh, properly and, and you make sure that you, you, uh, you don't let Outlook be the controller of your time, there's plenty of time.”

“It turns, it turns out that making a financial forecast that nobody knows, uh, is going to be right or wrong turns out not to be that important. But the important things that a business plan probably could have teased out, I, I think that the art of writing a business plan ought to be much, much shorter, and it forces…”

“Enjoy it, be inspired by it, but not to adopt it. That's not the whole point of these books. The whole point of these books is to share their experiences, and, and you, you're supposed to ask, you know, what does it mean to me in my world, and what does it mean to me in the context of what I'm going through?”

“As many good ideas as we have, um, you don't have all the world's good ideas. And, and the benefit of having developers is you get to see a lot of good ideas.”