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

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

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.

...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

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend’s sisters, I was the kid in a grey hoodie, walking with the poets, the singers, the thinkers, and I was not alone.

When the pieces fell around him, he'd pick them up. It was what he was good at, after all. Restoring what was once lost, what could never be perfectly whole again.

You can have the most expensive clothes and still lack style

I'm lucky because I remember my dad showing me 'Independence Day, ' and I loved it.

An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.

We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.

That's kind of the weird thing that M. Night Shyamalan has sort of unleashed upon the world is this need for every movie to have these ridiculous endings.

I really like Billie Holiday's husky voice, and I'd definitely like to find out more about her.

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.