If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.

Your inability to see other possibilities and your lack of vocabulary are your brain's limits, not the universe's.

Writers tend to work early in the morning, or late at night, when brains are naturally able to focus deeply on one thought. In the middle of the day, distractions are unavoidable. I wonder if anything worthwhile has ever been written in the afternoon.

The only risk of failure is promotion.

He changed more times than a baby in a beer-drinking contest.

What does it mean to be yourself?” he asked. “If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then you’re doing that already. If it means to act like you’re exempt from society’s influence, that’s the worst advice in the world; you would probably stop bathing and wearing clothes. The advice to ‘be yourself’ is obviously nonsense. But our brains accept this tripe as wisdom because it is more comfortable to believe we have a strategy for life than to believe we have no idea how to behave.

My investments have been hurt.