"The worst thing you can do is give advice to someone who doesn't want it."

"Hotel heuristic: In a new hotel, always reject the first room they give you."

"You want to be the fire and wish for the wind."

"The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free."

"The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding, or better at explaining than doing."