“There are no words for it. The important thing is to drop the labels.”

“Labeling a firm as knowledge-intensive implies that knowledge has more importance than other inputs.”

“But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.”

“For the faithful, the patient, the hermetically pure, all the important things in this world — not life and death, perhaps, which are merely words, but the important things — work out rather beautifully.”

“The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish.”

“When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life.”

“Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.”

“Biologists have a label for the neat tricks that enable living things to take care of the four Fs of survival—feeding, fighting, flight, and… reproducing. The label for these traits is "adaptation."”

“Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.”

“What are the three most important rules of the chemist?"

This I knew from Ben. "Label clearly. Measure twice. Eat elsewhere.”