It's hard to believe it took me so long to read such a short book. That can be discussed offline. For now, I want to capture a couple of passages that I found funny or valuable or both.

"I've encountered thousands (it might be tens of thousands of people) walking around with great ideas. Some of the ideas are really great; some are merely pretty good. There doesn't seem to be a shortage of ideas. Ordinary folks can dream up remarkable stuff fairly easily. What's missing is the will to make the ideas happen... A lot of us would like to believe that there's a Bureau of Idea Approval, or the BIA if you like acronyms. The BIA sits in judgement of ideas and blesses the best ones. Go ahead and hone your remarkable concept, submit it to the BIA, and let them do the rest. Alas, it's not going to happen like that any time soon." (p. 42)

"Curious people count. Not because there are a lot of them, but because they're the ones who talk to people who are in a stupor. They're the ones who lead the masses in the middle who are stuck. The masses in the middle have brainwashed themselves into thinking it's safe to do nothing, which the curious can't abide." (p. 64)