“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

If your plan is for one year plant rice.
If your plan is for ten years plant trees.
If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.

As a job-seeker, you are an investor looking for the best returns.

Compliance is not security in the same way that keyboards are not music.

There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.

There are entry-level jobs in cyber. The problem is that they're boring. Examples are account administration and security tool management. Regular IT work is much more interesting than the responsibilities one will be given in a true entry-level security job. Interesting security work requires experience and lots of it.

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.

The master holds the disciple’s head underwater for a long, long time; gradually the bubbles become fewer; at the last moment the master pulls the disciple out and revives him: when you have craved truth as you crave air, then you will know what truth is.

Cloud has a way of exposing weaknesses that used to be buried on prem. I don’t mean just technical ones. Poor processes, lack of knowledge, and weak IT governance come front and center in the cloud era.

LinkedIn is not like a newspaper. It's more like a cocktail party. Work the room the platform will work for you. An expensive ad is like a fancy outfit. It matters little until you start to engage in conversations.

Never lose the groove in order to find a note.

It's the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you'll keep it under control. If you don't make any noise, the bogeyman won't find you. But it's all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe.

There are only 4 reasons to take a gig:
For the money
For the connections
For the experience
Or just for fun

Now, a few words on looking for things. When you go looking for something specific, your chances of finding it are very bad. Because of all the things in the world, you’re only looking for one of them. When you go looking for anything at all, your chances of finding it are very good. Because of all the things in the world, you’re sure to find some of them.

Science is an alliance of sparkling imagination and extreme caution.

To master the art of intrusion analysis, we must master the art of seeing the normal.

Complicated solutions don’t work, simple ones might.

There are complex adaptive systems.
There are complex adaptive adversarial systems.

"What gets you out of bed in the morning", has always seemed to miss the point. It's not "what", it's "who".

Before you say "working tirelessly", make sure you understand what that that means.

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.

I bear the light so that others won’t stumble
Yo llevo la luz para que los demás no choquen.

Read outside of your discipline.

Meetings are not your job unless you're an operator or a meeting facilitator. The amount of time you spend in meetings is not a measure of your productivity.

We are and always have been objects of mutual creation.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Cooperation grows in importance as complexity increases.

The present and the future now coexist at the same time,” Coupland began. “It’s why time doesn’t feel like time any more. We’re inside the future.

The internet is a force multiplier for all things human, for good and for ill.

Instead of simply charging out at the head of the troops, they organize the troops so that when it comes time for battle, they'll charge off by themselves.

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

Don’t just cope with your emergencies. Exploit them. Consider the root of the word: to emerge.

Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. Normal science often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments.