"Every tradition is just an innovation that made it, and every innovation is merely a tradition that hasn't yet."
"The originating human desire is to be good and do good... It's the environmental factors which determine whether or not we fulfill that desire. If you want to encourage people to do good in the world, focus on what inhibiting pressures are getting in the way."
"One of the key laws of thermodynamics: when entropy (disorder) is increasing, the only way to bring more order is by infusing energy. That's what this work is all about."
"Love the problem, not your solution."