There's No Point In Arguing With Partisan

At Sgi Board Meetings... Jim Clark's Face Would Get Red And He'd Start Shouting That An Investor And Board Member Had Cheated Him And His Engineers.

The Lesson Of Buffett Was: To Succeed In A Spectacular Fashion You Had To Be Spectacularly Unusual.

The Incentive For The Outsider Is To Attack The System Right Up To The Moment He Is Co-opted By It. The Incentive For The Insider -and This Took Some Getting Used To- Is To Allow Yourself To Be Attacked, And Then Co-opt Your Most Ferocious Attackers, And Their Best Ideas. The Effect On The System As A Whole Is To Make It More Stable, Because Everyone Winds Up Working On Its Behalf.

In Their Leaders, Advisers, And Experts, People Much Prefer Overconfidence, Total Certainty, To Any Kind Of Doubt.

There's No Point In Arguing With Partisan Supporters. Their Views Are Their Identity. Nothing You Can Tell The Most Phlegmatic Follower.