Any time you had a cipher, you were vulnerable to someone smarter than you coming up with a way of breaking it. - Cory Doctorow

Start at the beginning,” he said. “Move one step in the direction of your goal. Remember that you can change direction to maneuver around obstacles. You don’t need a plan, you need a vector.

The way out of a crisis was to deal with it as it was, not as you wished it were.

He was a pushy, self-righteous prig, but that didn’t mean he was wrong. Necessarily.