Data is great, but strategy is better

When you delegate work to the member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.

If the work requires smart, talented, creative people, then more than anything, you want to enable folks on the team to create.

Nothing called the "Gang Of Four" ends well.

A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.

A mouse has the precision that your finger can't approach.

The cloud-powered smartphone and tablet, as productivity tools, are transforming the world around us along with the implied changes in how we work to be mobile and more social.

The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.

As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context and social science as the products we design and develop.

Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics.

This was the first time I noticed it, the inevitable space between father and man.

I'm not talented or gifted. I'm a committed, meticulous workaholic. The only reason I succeed is because I refuse to fail.

…for action is always easier than quiet waiting.

You want to do something very simple but also very fantastic? Then sit under the rain! Not long after, yourself will leave you and there will remain only the rain!

Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.

I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.

I always felt like an outsider to the music world in a certain way. There was so much less of an art culture in L.A. - and particularly in the South Bay.

I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added.

The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.

May your voice be loving enough to silence your own fears.