It's good to have a plan, but if something extraordinary comes your way, you should go for it.

You often learn who you are by realizing who you are not.

Cynicism will lead you to the truth. Or vice versa.

"We wanted the best, but it turned out as always."
-- Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian prime minister, 1992-1998; now, a billionaire oligarch

A good idea that doesn't happen is no idea at all.
-- Louis Kahn

"It has become clear that Internet access in itself is a vulnerability that we cannot mitigate. We have tried incremental steps and they have proven insufficient."

Al Qaeda is not an organization. It is a scene.

Ideas should never become ideologies.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

I could have done that. I could have done that while doing all the other things that I do. Why didn't I?

MORAL: Many a plan has just one flaw: No one has the courage to try it.

People say to me, "Whatever it takes." I tell them, It's going to take everything.