A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest.

A community that learns together excels together. We need to form communities that learn together.

This is a slow business to have success in. There are exceptions, but for the most part it's kind of like the last writer standing.... I've got gray. I've got plenty of gray. I'm creating a career slowly, like a coral reef.

To improve as a player you need to not only know how you plan to win, but ... how might your opponent disrupt your plan.

How could anyone survive even a single day, if he didn't feel as if he was, in some little great way, needed?

It has often been said that [...] the Japanese [are] geniuses at taking foreign ideas and adding a unique finishing touch.

In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a surprise or three. Stories are cut down to the most essential elements, and novels (this might be an unfair generalization on my part) are big fat clumsy efforts where the reader can snooze for a couple chapters and miss nothing of consequence. Hence my love for the middle way.