Perceived truth is more powerful than truth itself.
-Michel Fortin

A Simple Prayer

"God we do not expect you to cradle and nurse us, for we know you have given us minds to seek and find our own way. We cannot pray for you to end hunger, for we already have the resources to feed the world. Therefore, with your gifts of mind and inspiration, we will do instead of just pray, we will create instead of just wish. Amen"
-from elegy for Earl Kaufman (his favorite prayer)

"The simpler you make government, the easier it is to be competent in governing."
-Jerry Pournelle

"The best way to really enter minds that hate complexity and confusion is to oversimplify your message. The lesson here is not to try to tell your entire story. Just focus on one powerful differentiating idea and drive it into the mind. That sudden hunch, that creative leap of the mind that "sees" in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite different from general intelligence. If there's any trick to finding that simple set of words, it's one of being ruthless about how you edit the story you want to tell. Anything that others could claim just as well as you can, eliminate. Anything that requires a complex analysis to prove, forget. Anything that doesn't fit with your customers' perceptions, avoid."
-Jack Trout