Why are man hole covers around?" If you don't knwo the answer to the questions, you're not smart enough to work at microsoft

..... it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.

What is learned out of hard work and trial is inevitably more powerful than what is learned easily.

You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.

We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.

The religious paradigm and the science fiction paradigm are different. Apologies to science fiction fans, but the paradigm there is to create a new world and describe it with a kind of specificity that we describe the world we inhabit. Religiosity, on the other hand, does none of that.

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.