These aren’t personal questions. They are human questions, - Sheryl Sandberg

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

"[Eric Schmidt] explained that only one criterion that mattered when picking a job- fat growth. When companies grow quickly, there are more things to do than there are people to do them. When companies grow more slowly or stop growing, there is less to do and too many people to not be doing them. Politics and stagnation set in, and everyone falters, He told me, "If you're offered a seat on a rocket sip, you don't ask what seat. You just get on.

As a Facebook summer intern once told me, “In my school’s computer science department, there are more Daves than girls.