Worth repeating: Measure twice, cut once. - Kevin Kelly

When someone tells you about the peak year of human history, the period of time when things were good before things went downhill, it will always be the year when they were 10 years old—which is the peak of any human’s existence. Factor that into what they say.

To transcend the influence of your heroes, copy them shamelessly like a student until you get them out of your system. That is the way of all masters.

She never falls, but never gets out of falling. It's a state of permanent almost-fell.