Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.

In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large employers on the other. But we have a choice.

We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.

When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.

What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get.

Ideas come and go, stories stay.