It is a funny thing about life – if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.

The point of travel lies not in what you see but in the spirit that you bring to it. A trip across town can be as wondrous for a certain kind of open-eyed soul as a journey to Tibet for another.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is doing something else.

Ultimately, productivity is a symbiotic relationship between humans and tools. Your device is what you make it.

What do you want to be remembered for ?
Wearing nice suits.

Call an old girlfriend, the tough one you promised yourself you’d never speak to again.

We opt for more instead of better. Better is better than more.

My analog watches are my reminder that utility exists apart from an internet connection and usefulness doesn’t require the latest software.

She was at once gracious and proud, loquacious and cagey. She saw immediately beyond the contours, the confines of the conversation. She could not be captured or contained. She refused to discuss what did not interest her, just as she refused to waste words on the dispensable and predictable elements of a plot. There are only certain moments in life that matter, she told me. Those were the moments in which meaning lay.

In the first place, science doesn’t involve merely telling stories about history. If it did, scientific explanations might not have any claim to a higher level of veracity than religious stories.