The opposite of esprit d'escalier is the way that life's embarrassments come back to haunt us even after they're long past. I could remember every stupid thing I'd ever said or done, recall them with picture-perfect clarity. Any time I was feeling low, I'd naturally start to remember other times I felt that way, a hit parade of humiliations coming one after another to my mind.

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.

We're going to fight this battle with everything we have, and we will probably lose. But then we will fight it again, and we will lose a little less, for this battle will win us many supporters. And then we'll lose *again*. And *again*. And we will fight on. Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing.

No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.

Like all security, privacy is hard.

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?