Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you increase the odds of serendipitous encounters-you gain exposure to the envelope of serendipity.

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.

A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.

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