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

Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.

The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.

Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will laugh at their beliefs in the (disappointingly near) future.

Luck is the grand equalizer.

If you don't feel that you haven't read enough, you haven't read enough.

You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.