"Deciding not to intentionally do things to shape your environment... will help bring about the environment you don't want. Inaction around the office is innocuous."

"If you are equally as emotionally needy as your Buddy Boss, it could be a marriage made in heaven, although I would rather go to another heaven."

"Invite you Buddy Boss to everything. Share information openly... Request meetings. Beware of the confessional. Your Buddy Boss will devote endless hours to hearing your confessions and making hers to you - a potential disconnect from getting any appreciable work done. Set time limits."

"If escaping your paranoid boss is not easy, keep your activities in plain site; copy your Paranoid Boss on everything; spend more time with him; share the knowledge, share secrets - some of your inner thoughts, within reason."

"Most executives bring in a consultant or a new training program for course correction after they've steered the ship into an iceberg."

"Getting along with her requires ignoring everything you're being paid to do. Dedicated workers get hit the hardest because they must work nights and weekends to do the things they would have done. With luck, you might be transferred to an Idiot Boss."

"To Paranoid Bosses, everything and everybody is out to get them, including you."

"Paranoia can feed on itself and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. The Paranoid Boss spends his energy searching out and exposing the conspiracy against him. The focus and leadership that should have been committed to departmental objectives is wasted and whole operation goes in the tank - thus confirming the paranoid boss's contention."

"Turning down a Machiavellian invitation can be interpreted as resistance or a possible power move on your part."

"Learning a new cadence will serve you better than forming your own drum line. You'll probably just frustrate yourself and you boss, who in turn will drum you out."

"Efficiency, productivity, and performance should always be priorities, through good times and bad."

"Masochistic Bosses attract codependents like flies to a Sunday picnic. They are about as uplifting as a boar anchor."

"Telling God and Machiavellian Bosses what they want to hear is always your best bet."

"There are people who think they're God. Thinking you're God transcends God Bosses play church. ...He is playing God to compensate for a tremendous lack of confidence.'"

"Lose the battles to win the war. Ask for forgiveness. Acknowledge his presence. Don't make the mistake of ignoring him. His ease is your ease. If your attitude is resentful, he will bring thunder and lightning on your head and on the heads of your coworkers."

"Masochistic Bosses make sure their departments fail so upper management will deal out punishment."

"Machiavellian Bosses view the universe as an enormous pyramid. There is one spot at the top and it belongs to them, by divine right. It is not about you. And it will never be about you, except for the moment you are actually in their way."

"Telling Sadistic Bosses what they want to hear, like "...ouch," will only get them charged up to do more punishment... Try pretending you're a masochist. If your performance is convincing... you'll be out in a flash."

"What shall we say of the Intelligence that plans all this? Can the Creator be less than the creature? Shall we not say that Intelligence is indestructible, and its measure is its Power to adapt means to ends? Intelligence, Matter, Energy — nature's trinity in her manifestations."

"The world is now rapidly advancing in light, in knowledge, in power to use the infinite gifts that the Creator has hidden in nature; but hidden only to stimulate and reward our seeking. Every man can help in this grand progress,--if not by research and positive thought-power, at least by grateful acceptance and realization of what is gained. Look forward!"

"A word about the title--"Nature's Miracles." Some may claim that it is unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as "miracles." But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things--as wonderful as any miracle that was ever recorded--subservient to the rule of law. "But," you say, "a miracle does not come under any rule of law." Ah! are you sure of that? It is true that we may not understand the law that the so-called miracle comes under, but the Author of all natural law does."

"The sponge, whether considered as a single or compound animal, has the power to reproduce itself, and here the mystery of life is as much hidden as it is in God's highest creation. It has been stated that every sponge contains a large number of separate cells which carry on the operation of circulation and respiration, and may be likened to the heart and lungs of an animal of a higher creation. Zoologists claim that each one of these cells represents a separate animal, living in a common structure."

"Those who believe that the laws of nature are the creations of a beneficent and all-wise Intelligence will see in this exception to the general law in the case of freezing water a striking evidence of design. But those who have no such belief will say it is a most fortunate though fortuitous circumstance (a saying they will have to make, regarding thousands of other things in nature), and go on floundering in the interminable sea of "I don't know.""

"It is the province of the scientist to reveal the facts of nature as they now exist, and leave the rest to the speculation of the philosopher and the theologian. The growth of vegetation made it possible for animal and insect life to exist, and the earth teemed with both; first of an inferior kind, but later, as the conditions for a higher order of life were right, the higher order came with the improved conditions. In this way was the earth through countless ages of time prepared for man — God's highest creation."

"Science has no prejudices — though scientists often do. Science is like figures: they do not lie themselves, but the men who figure are often the greatest liars in the world."

"If you want to live a purpose filled life, what better goal to guide your career is there than saving the planet?"

"Paying it forward is not about grandiose gestures, but in refocusing your perspective on making every day count."

"The next generation of sustainable companies need to evolve their business practices to ones of shared values."

"Working hard doesn’t make you rich, working smart does."

"Remote Workers are Your New Competitive Advantage."

"You now have access to a global talent pool eager to maintain their freedom. Employees can travel the world while still maintaining a full-time job and not have to wait until they retire to enjoy life."

"Spatial reality will be as vital to the success of a two-person startup as it is to the largest multinational conglomerate."

"The physical and the virtual will seamlessly meld before our very eyes creating an augmented life called spatial reality."

"The spatial web holds so much promise for improving our lives that those companies failing to invest and embrace the future will go the way of Kodak, Radio Shack, and Blockbuster."

"If the big multinational corporations are making the bricks, you can make millions supplying the mortar that holds their market together."

"If you are spending most of your time and money in the digital world today, why not build your career and business there?"

"Steve Jobs wasn’t an engineer and he built a trillion-dollar company without ever learning to code."

"The true potential of an augmented life is revealed when it provides us with the information we need, at exactly the right time and place."

"Make sure your goals are your goals."

"No one ever built a billion-dollar company without employees, investors, business partners, and customers."

"Company mentoring programs are also a key tool in promoting diversity at the workplace."

"A stable middle class is the backbone of a free society and entrepreneurs are the true job creators that power our world."

"Too many people believe that they have to wait until they are wealthy to follow their passion, when in fact, it will be their passion that will make them wealthy."

"Having a purpose puts you in control of your destiny."

"Everything is a Tech Startup. Yes, Everything!"

"Next time you get lost in thought, pay attention to where you went for therein lies your inner passion."

"The best time to launch your new company was a year ago; the second-best time is now."

"You have the power to change the world and your only fear should be wasting the opportunity while you have the time to wield it."

"Each minute, of every day, people watch 4.7 million YouTube videos, send 19 million texts, scroll through 700,000 Instagram pictures, share 2.5 million Snaps, query Google 4.1 million times, send 59 million messages and send 190 million emails."

"Failure is a frequent stop on the road to success."