“Be guided by beauty. I really mean that. Pretty much everything I’ve done has had an aesthetic component, at least to me. Now you might think ‘well, building a company that’s trading bonds, what’s so aesthetic about that?’ But, what’s aesthetic about it is doing it right. Getting the right kind of people, and approaching the problem, and doing it right […] it’s a beautiful thing to do something right.”

- Jim Simons

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/renaissance-technologies

Dude I read the book about him and medallion and I had no idea what he would look like or sound like. I watched this maybe 3 months before he died and I really liked the guy. Most people will never know the scope of his impact on the world.