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.

Please, don’t drive a school bus blindfolded.

The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.

History doesn't crawl; it leaps.

You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.

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