But Andrew was right about one thing. Human beings need to tell stories. Historically, it's the quickest way we have for transmitting useful informat… - Hugh MacLeod

Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle — that is, being human.

Stuff designed to make them sound clever and make us part with our money. Which is fine, but their shtick isn’t the whole story. Buzzwords are not the word of God. The Internet doesn’t work the way it does because some clever person in New York or Shanghai has decided she needs your money. No, it’s something far more universal and egalitarian. The Internet works best when we’re all trying to share stuff. Not just the corporations and the Internet millionaires, but you, me, everybody else on this planet.

A lot of people in business say they have twenty years' experience, when in fact all they have is one year's experience, repeated twenty times.