Politics consists only of victory, defeat, and revenge.

The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.

Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest.

It's good to know who hates you, and it's good to be hated by the right people.

You can spend a lot of time just organizing things in the pursuit of simplicity, but if you really want to simplify, you have to throw things away -- not just rearrange them.

If you're an engineer at a company where becoming a manager is considered a promotion, then you only have three choices: become a manager yourself, or leave, or resign yourself to being a second-class employee. It should be obvious — you can work through the math using three sock puppets — that this is an arrangement that pushes a company inexorably towards mediocrity.

In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none.

In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief.

People think of addicts as these lazy, do-nothing sort of people, but really it's a full-time job. Most of them work at it harder than these farmers I seen in these cornfields. It takes their entire life.

The sage avoids fame like the thief avoids capture

Imaginary work is always easier to do than real work.