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

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.

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.

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.

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

EWI: Emailing While Intoxicated

People having a victim complex are not apt to count on themselves in dealing with problems and they tend to wait for a savior

The ghosts that exert the most power in people’s lives-at least, the people I know–tend to be of their own making, and consist of equal parts regret and old fears and just plain missing somebody.

What I tell you three times is true. What I tell you three million times is civilization.

In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the soprano.

For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.

We have to start treating each other as if we are treating ourselves living another life.

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

I can put my whole fist in my mouth! Wanna see?

The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

When words fail, wars begin. When wars finally end, we settle our disputes with words.