The pool

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Setting up systems that look like IT-level magic to most people — efficient, simple if you know how, baffling and valuable if you don't.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

Big Heinlein fan.

Think outside the books.

The linguistic version of "think outside the box." A good band name comes from combining words that have never been combined before — this phrase is that same move applied to itself.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Specialization is for insects.

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.

Convictions cause convicts.

Belief is the death of intelligence.

Just 'cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

The reason I talk to myself is because I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

Think of how stupid the average person is. Now realize half of them are stupider than that.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.

The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it, you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.