If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.
It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.
They say productivity is the key to confidence, and confidence. . . to productivity. And they're happy walking back and forth between these two rooms, each the excuse for the other.
Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear.
Too much apology doubles the offense.
Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.
Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.
I just didn't want to walk away from football without knowing what it meant to be a manager, or even wondering what it was like to be sacked.
If a superior alien civilization sent us a message saying, 'We'll arrive in a few decades', would we just reply, 'OK, call us when you get here - we'll leave the lights on'? Probably not - but this is more or less what is happening with AI.
Leadership is the ability to encourage the best efforts of others in working toward a desirable goal.
Ever notice how people wait until they're not going to see you anymore to say something nice to you?