Scheduling flexibility is the single greatest non-financial tool -- and the number-one dream-job factor -- at your disposal for winning battles in the talent wars. Use it.

Leverage your uniqueness.

A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.

Adversity is the adventure of time.

For a dream to die, something so tragic would have definitely gone wrong! Be careful you don’t kill your own dreams.

Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?

A decision clouded with doubt is never a good decision

I've been in rooms where people are discussing films that have yet to come out and saying delightedly, 'Oh, I've heard it's a disaster!' The jealousy is unseemly.

How can you be a vegetarian atheist and own a gun? Well, that's who I am.

I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a much harder thing to bottle. If you have both, you're in pretty good shape.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.

I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying.