Hikers’ rule: Don’t step on what you can step over; don’t step over what you can walk around. - Kevin Kelly

The best time to negotiate your salary for a new job is the moment after they say they want you, and not before. Then it becomes a game of chicken for each side to name an amount first, but it is to your advantage to get them to give a number before you do.

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

Many of the jobs that politicians are fighting to keep away from robots are jobs that no one wakes up in the morning really wanting to do. Robots will do jobs we have been doing, and do them much better than we can. They will do jobs we can’t do at all. They will do jobs we never imagined even needed to be done. And they will help us discover new jobs for ourselves, new tasks that expand who we are. They will let us focus on becoming more human than we were.