Given the current nostalgia for shared reality we shouldn’t forget that peak shared reality was mutually assured destruction

Power is the ability To maintain your non-negotiables And the world to come Will arrive when we stop trying To negotiate a new deal with God

I thought I’d crafted a mystique when all I’d rea– lly made were mistakes

In banishing fear of the unknown By knowing it all Our risk is only greater Because now It’s the devil you know

If you take a hot-blooded child and raise him in a cold-blooded cu… don’t be surprised when you get a lukewarm-blooded vulture

Knowing that everyone agrees you remind them of indoor furniture on the porch tells you nothing about what each of them thinks of you

When Eddie Money said “I’ve got two tickets to paradise” he didn’t mention that the paradise sales team only sells tickets in pairs

Inborn intelligence used to be tak… but for some time now it’s gone un… With Artificial Intelligence it c… although after insertion it’s alwa… Nevertheless, everyone seems perfe…

Past– I know what I want Therefore, I need someone to tell… so I can go ahead and do it Present–

People don’t generally like instru… because music without words is just math come alive Adding words to music takes it from counting time

If only hate were but bone deep we could bury it with the bones But hate is buried deep in the sou… with which it reincarnates like a perennial crop of invasive…

In days gone by we said you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink In these more opportune times it’s widely understood that

If you want a world that isn’t just a bunch of window dressing don’t have a world in which we’re all constantly being window…

If you’ve been put in an impossibl… Consider the possibility that you Have been asked to do the impossib… And that a good leader Would never ask you to do

The funny thing is if you’re continually nervous about getting into a wreck you become a nervous wreck and then