Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas.

If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success.

The successful are those who have been given opportunities.

If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

Now I basically just read spy stories because they're about solving a puzzle within the constraints of history. It's the tick tock, the clockwork that I'm interested in.

The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.

Clear writing is universal. People talk about writing down to an audience or writing up to an audience; I think that's nonsense. If you write in a way that is clear, transparent, and elegant, it will reach everyone.