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• Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. You use them when you've got nothing else to try.
  If they work, they go in the Book. Otherwise you follow the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked....
• One of your most ancient writers, a historian named Herodotus, tells of a thief who was to be executed.
  As he was taken away he made a bargain with the king...
• Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
• You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
  -- Ursula K. LeGui...
• As hard as you try, the book cannot be closed.
• Man 1: You have been safety inspector for two years.
  What initiatives have you spearheaded in that time?...
• Your eyes are weary from reading buttons. You are sleepy.
  You agree with all my ideas. You cannot imagine why you ever felt otherwise....
• You've got to know the rules before you break them - otherwise it's no fun.
• People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first.