"The best way to learn about someone is to read their story."

Our heroes are human heroes. That's a very new situation. Most other societies have had, right at their center, the worship of something transcendent: a god, a spirit, a natural force, the universe, whatever it is -- something else that is being worshiped. We've slightly lost the habit of doing that, which is, I think, why we're particularly drawn to nature.

Leadership means taking action in the face of uncertainty and finding order amidst chaos.

A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.