“If you would persuade, appeal to interest and not to reason.

“With the notable exception of LinkedIn usage and VCs in the Bay Area friending everyone on Facebook, married men are not hanging out on social networks. Married women, however, are joining social networks in droves. In fact, women between the ages 35-50 are the fastest growing segment on social networks, especially on MySpace.

“Measure productivity over weeks and months rather than days.

“As a batsman I’ll always feel I underachieved because I couldn’t convert my starts, and I’ll never know why. Sometimes I was the master of my own failings, other times it just wasn’t meant to be.

“There are no causes of poverty. It is the rest state, that which happens when you don’t do anything. If you want to experience poverty, just do nothing and it will come. To ask what causes poverty is like asking what causes cold in the universe.

“We used to fight for the right not to reveal information about ourselves. The “new privacy” is about fighting for the right to spread your personal information all over very public forums but still control how it’s used.

“A patent is really a license to be sued.