> "We are nihilists, Lebowski! We believe in nothing!" :) > With all due respect to Peter Thiel, who is much smarter and more successful than I am Remember,

> "We are nihilists, Lebowski! We believe in nothing!" :) > With all due respect to Peter Thiel, who is much smarter and more successful than I am Remember, these two things sometimes go together. Another guy who's more successful than many of us said “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.” > I'm going to give a guy like Peter Thiel the benefit of the doubt and assume that I'm missing a lot for lack of context I'm a little less generous; my guess is that what Thiel says is very smart indeed in the context of boosting certain business interests and/or political philosophies.