In the Darwinian environment of business, one's most provocative words are naturally selected by competitors to be hurled back at them at the most inopportune moments. Do not arm your adversaries.

For every opinion, there is an equal and opposite opinion.

An organization's proprietary, internal information is constrained only by an understanding that stake-holders will keep organizational matters within the organization.

The written word imparts a gravitas the spoken word lacks. The underlying assumption is that time and thought has been expended on what was written, even if that is not the case.

Neither inherently good nor evil, electronic communication platforms are 100 percent dependent on user input.

Most people do not see their words as power.

Emails are viewed as an essential historical record of an organization. A record that cannot be expunged must be created with care or not created at all.

History was once rewritten by the victors. Now we write our own immutable histories with every email, text, and post.

...with electronic communication, what one writes in a moment, eternity will not erase.

Electronic communication has transmuted conversations into durable and accessible records. Revisionist history has gone the way of the phone booth.

EWI: Emailing While Intoxicated

True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.

...it is not possible to create the opposite of what one has always known, simply because the opposite is believed to be desired. Human beings need what they already know, even horrors.

Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!

I'm in an on-off relationship at the moment.

I have never cared enough about money to worry about spending it, and have been fortunate to make enough to be spoiled rotten.

Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.

Life always comes out of death. The present rises from the ashes of the past. The future is always possible for those who are willing to re-create it.

Its not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.

The US health-care system is a complete scandal. It's got twice the costs of comparable countries and some of the worst outcomes.

With goals you can create the future in advance.