Kevin Kelly

“The purpose of a habit is to remove that action from self negotiation. You no longer expend energy deciding whether to do it. You just do it.”

“If you ask for someone's feedback, you'll get a critic, but instead, if you ask for advice, you'll get a partner.”

“Rule of seven in research. You can find out anything if you're willing to go to seven levels. If the first source you ask doesn't know, ask them who you should ask next and so on down the line. If you're willing to go to the seventh source, you'll almost alway…”

“Always demand a deadline because it weeds out the extraneous and the ordinary. A deadline prevents you from trying to make it perfect, so you have to make it different. Different is better.”

“The best way to get to a yes in a negotiation is to truly understand what yes means for the other party.”

“To get to the real reason, ask a person to go deeper than what they just said. Then again, and then once more. The third time's answer Is the one that's closest to the truth.”

“At first, buy the absolute cheapest tools you can find. Upgrade the ones that you use a lot. If you wind up using some tool for a job, buy the very best you can afford.”