Your beliefs are cause maps that you impose on the world, after which you 'see' what you have already imposed.

The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization.

Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy.

Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do.

Rank and expertise do not necessarily coincide.

If people have multiple identities and deal with multiple realities, why should we expect them to be ontological purists?

Life being full of sense and devotion to a significant goal, makes looking for my destination a significant goal

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?

I will be sharing additional information I've been hoarding for years about the world of Harry Potter

Since most American students cannot simply pay their full tuition out of pocket, financing a college education often takes the form of loans, both private and from the government.

Where there is no freedom there can be no morality.

Discipline gives you the freedom to be creative.

People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

The band geek has liquor?

I have a day job that's very odd. Most people, by the time they're 25, glom onto one kind of music and that's what they listen to for the rest of their lives.

I'm not a flamboyant artist.