I think that quote was coined by AI researcher and robotics engineer Yacine Mahdid writing under the social handle @yacineMTB
Andrej Karpathy circulated it online and placed it at the center of his address at Sequoia Capital's AI Ascent conference in April.
The idea is very old though. There's a story of how King Ptolemy I Soter wanted to learn geometry from Euclid, but being a King, he asked for a shortcut to understanding it. Euclid replied that "there is no royal road to geometry". (A "royal road" was basically a fast road reserved for royals, such as the Persian Royal Road.)
Andrej Karpathy circulated it online and placed it at the center of his address at Sequoia Capital's AI Ascent conference in April.
The idea is very old though. There's a story of how King Ptolemy I Soter wanted to learn geometry from Euclid, but being a King, he asked for a shortcut to understanding it. Euclid replied that "there is no royal road to geometry". (A "royal road" was basically a fast road reserved for royals, such as the Persian Royal Road.)