“Focus on adapting to change rather than predicting the future.

“Rather than stay bound to long-term strategic visions, Twitter has made many adjustments to its product over the last several months..

“It takes but a flash of brilliance to think up a new feature, but hours or days or months of actual hard work to realize it. We need to prioritize what we’re going to do and when we’re going to do it. YAGNI is meant to help us prioritize.

“..augmentation (change behavior) instead of automation (ease of use).

“..communities need to fragment.

“..the process of [justice department] agency functioning became dramatically different almost immediately after Gonzales arrived. No longer was emphasis placed on accomplishing something with the highest-quality product in a timely fashion; rather, it became a matter of making sure that a “consensus” was achieved, regardless of how long that might take and with little or no concern that quality would suffer in such a “lowest common denominator” environment.

“The Bush administration employs 150 graduates from Pat Robertson’s law school. Including the third-ranking official in the justice department, Monica Goodling.

“You know why VCs are like this? It’s not that they are bad people; it’s the limited partners. And who are the limited partners? Our great institutions — Harvard University, Stanford University, UC Berkeley.

“Your goal: invent a terrorist plot to hijack or blow up an airplane with a commonly carried item as a key component. The component should be so critical to the plot that the TSA will have no choice but to ban the item once the plot is uncovered.

“VisiCalc users loved VisiCalc; they just wanted it to do more. And it didn’t. ..when we showed what it [1-2-3] did right out of the box.. I used to get applause doing demos all the time.